Alyice on February 28th, 2009
Indian Dreamweaver
My mom, while proclaiming to be a Christian, often confused me with her religious beliefs. She loved God and what He stood for, but she also loved the idea of something more than God—of a belief system that didn’t give one deity control over all of mankind. And so she often found herself leaning more towards the belief systems of Native American Indians. She believed that they understood the earth better than any living soul, and that they could connect with the spirit world because of their connection with earth.
So it was no surprise that when each of my children were born, she presented them with two things: a beautiful white cross with a child kneeling and praying before the cross, and a handcrafted dreamweaver. It was her desire that the cross would remind them of the one true God—and I am sure appease me—and that the dreamweaver would protect them by keeping away nightmares and providing them with pleasant, happy dreams.
The card below is in honor of my mom’s beliefs.
The Dream Keeper © Alyice Edrich, 2009
May this Indian Dreamweaver postcard remind you to respect the beliefs of others, even if you don’t agree with them or find them confusing from time-to-time.
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really pretty! what mediums did you use?
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I created this using ordinary acrylic paints. But then I did something really fun! I enhanced it digitally with oil paintbrushes. So cool, huh?
Posted at 11:29 pm March 2nd, 2009
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