Happy Mother's Day

I dedicate this Mother's Day to my grandma,

Rosita Valdez Padilla

"The past is not a burden
It is a scaffold which brought us to this day.

We are free to be who we are 

To create our own life

Out of our past and out of the present.

We are our ancestors.

When we heal ourselves,

We also heal our ancestors,

Our grandmothers, 
Our grandfathers,

And our children.

When we heal ourselves, 
We heal Mother Earth. 

— Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein

(Yupik), of the 13 International Indigenous Grandmothers Council