Click on any of the titles in blue to go to a document with the complete text. The date in parenthesis lets you know which ritual it was used in. (If you go to the tab, "Ritual Outlines", the 2017 ritual used the "Lakota Sun Dance Song" and "Praise Song for the Day".)
Lakota Sun Dance Song  (2017)- Read as a poem: "At the center of the Earth / Stand looking around you. / Recognizing the tribe / Stand looking around you. / Go from a somebody to a nobody / Come from sometime to no time / Observe from the quantum field and become an energy wave / Enter, my dear, the void."
Praise Song for the Day (2017) Read as a poem:  "Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each other's eyes or not, about to speak or speaking.  All about us is noise.  All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each  one of our ancestors on our tongues..."
“When Death Comes,” by Mary Oliver: 
​When death comes
Like the hungry bear in autumn;
When death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
To buy me, and snaps the purse shut;...
The House of Belonging by David Whyte 
"​...And I thought this is the good day you could meet your love,
this is the black day someone close to you could die.
This is the day you realize how easily the thread is broken between this world and the next
and I found myself sitting up in the quiet pathway of light,... "
I am Crone, the Ancient One by Debby: Crone speaks in first person-(The reader wears a mask to represent Crone.)