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How to make tosha (purple stuff)
This is a short video of how I make a special herbal concoction called "tosha" (pronounced DOH - SHUH; Lakota for purple), using ingredients selected by Jerry.
1. It is Jerry's experience that the cedar in tosha will, over time, help you make friends with the cedar trees (juniper, actually) around Austin, thus minimizing or eliminating adverse reactions cumulatively known as "cedar fever."
2. We also use tosha to carry prayers for help, health and well-being or wicozani na wookiye. Just hold in your hand the roots and herbs used in the concoction offering the simple, sincere prayer for help noted above. In this way, these mere botanicals or peji become actual medicine or pejuta. Without the prayers, tosha is just food.
Note: Lakota terms in Italics.
I experimented with proportions until the consistency met with our approval and, in the video, you'll view the final results of this research. A list of ingredients and amounts is shown at the end of the video – but, the attached file (tosha.pdf) is a downloadable version of the recipe which includes calorie counts.
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The daily recommended "tosha dosage" is one teaspoon (roughly 25 calories) before breakfast. It's excellent for digestion and other alimentary events. In other words, it can really get things moving.
Best regards,
MJ
Posted by Mary Jane Mara
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How to properly say 'Face'
Most people say the word "face" like this: fās. MJ and I like to say it like this: FAH-chay—as if it were spoken by an Italian or Lakota person.
Posted by Jerry Daniels
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Shayla at Lodge
Shayla Rose daughter of Sean and Christina. Fall 2008.
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Ciye Bert
Relaxing with Cherokee and I at Sherry Heiden's. Looking quite Bohemian. November 2008.
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Star Quilt
Given to Rose by Auntie Andrea. Taken December, 2008.
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Finally...
A woman who won't say no to Mark. At Palmer with Red Star Drum. December, 2008.
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Awacin Back Jack
This is an iPhone-generated photo of the space in my office where I meditate.
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