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Below is Whisper #20 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. In my early days at Hancock Lumber we had sweatshirts with our logo on them that read “Our People Make…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #19 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I once attended a powwow in honor of Tamokoce Te’Hila at the Prairie Wind Casino. Billy Mills, as he is…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #18 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. When I entered the world of business thirty years ago, “staying in your lane” was considered an expected practice for…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #17 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. One morning in London, while doing research for my second book, I shared breakfast with a Colombian-born advertising executive, Jose…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #16 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. As a young manager I often listened to evaluate the perspectives of others. But after living for a few years…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #15 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I once had a dream in which an angel offered to take me back in time fifteen years and start…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #14 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Restraint is the opposite of overreaching. It’s about having the most power but not using it. Restraint is the essential…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #13 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Leaders often overextend themselves. Those with the most power frequently exercise it and go too far. This is overreaching, and…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #11 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. One dichotomy on the northern plains is the quiet battle for supremacy between the circles and the squares.The native tribes…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #10 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Division is a big business—perhaps the most powerful one on Earth. Gender, race, age, ethnicity, religion, political persuasions, and geography…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #9 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. As I leave South Dakota and the Black Hills traveling west toward the Bighorn Mountains, I inevitably come upon a…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #8 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Mitakuye Oyasin is a Lakota phrase which translates to mean “All things are one thing” or “We are all brothers.”…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #7 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Traditional Western thought often depicts humanity as nature’s detached and isolated master. From this perspective the natural world surrounds but…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #6 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I was walking alone in the wilderness one evening when the epiphany I had been seeking materialized. It appeared suddenly,…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #5 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. One of my dearest friends from Pine Ridge is Catherine Grey Day. She is a Dakota elder and a survivor…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #4 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. These words by philosopher Joseph Campbell reveal his understanding of the world’s mythologies and sacred stories as manifestations of the…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #3 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. It was the day before Halloween, and I found myself standing alone at the Wounded Knee Massacre site on the…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #2 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I remember pacing the quiet halls of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on an early Sunday morning as I waited for…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #1 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Crazy Horse was born in 1842 near the Black Hills. In the decades that marked his life steamboats would conquer…
READ ARTICLEThe following is the introduction to my third book, 48WHISPERS From Pine Ridge and the Northern Plains. Please enjoy. As a teenager our family took a vacation to the Grand Tetons. I was so enamored with the majestic grandeur of the West that I subsequently returned one college summer to work in Yellowstone National Park. I happily…
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