Let us Play. It's is good for our Osage Souls.

Osage Winter Stories are told only during the winter, of course! Anyone caught telling a Winter Story during any other time of year are very simply considered, a liar. (A2K and White Cow, have you learned this lesson yet?) So I must tell you, that by my breaking this news, regarding our newly identified Vulture Clan of the Osage, brings me very close to the edge of being bad.

However when I am stuck in anything, I was taught and learned to "just do something, even if it's wrong! At least a wrong action can be corrected." Stuck is stuck and allows us nothing to correct and no learning takes place (remember . . . learning . . . the meaning of our being born!) It occurs to me that many of us are experiencing "stuck" these days . . . in all sorts of things. I know I am. So let's do something EVEN if it is a little bad! But I don't want to be too bad because that's much too hard to correct.

Here is my proposal:

Winter begins this year on December 21. That's too long, in my way of thinking, to continue being stuck. I hate being stuck! And it's also really too far off for outright telling Winter Stories. But, we can just think about them.

Now that this new Vulture Clan has been identified, we can wildly guess about some of its traits. For example, who are it's Clan Elders? what are it's medicines? who are it's members?

Normally, we would simply wait until we were told this information. But, I'm thinking it would just be too much fun to guess. I'm already thinking that JS of GHV is the Vulture Clan's Medicine Man. What do you think?

Save up your ideas for when I post this year's Winter Story forum and post them yourself, or send them to me and I will tickle everyone's imagination with a few funny lines here and there, posting them in total on Dec 21.  Or just send a line or two just for fun.

Now those Osage who "don't play well with others" your still welcome in the fun by just reading, but I want to say that playing is fun and I'm pretty sure you could use some wholesome fun in your life too! So don't be so stuffy, find just a tiny bit of courage, go ahead and give yourself permission to come and play with the rest of us.

Click here to send your Vulture Clan - Osage Imaginations gone wild!

Click here to send your ideas for this year's Winter Story fun.

As is usual, your identity will always remain anonymous!

Response:

• Osage Vulture Clan Medicine

  • Vulture Clan Medicine is gold metal, green money, road-kill possum, and casinos. Some of their more noted members of this clan are Charlie’s Angels, Hairey Roy, ex-headman Jerry and Baby Chief.
    • Charlie's Angels? Oh yes . . I remember. I always called them Charlie's Anglers
  • Methamphetamine
  • Any drug or activity, legal or illegal, which alters the Osage ability to see clearly and make good decisions based upon reality.
  • Mind Control

     

•  . . . new development by the Vulture Clan
  • looks like an adoption looms perhaps the much larger Condor will subsume the 'needy wahshashe'.

   

• Vulture Clan Traditions
  • Mixing Medicines
  • Cannibalism, as in the destruction of the family and tribe.
  • Greed - Greed - Greed - the old "what's in it for me?"
  • False Faces - Hypocrisy
  • Deceit
  • Charm - Charisma

   

• Vulture Clan Ceremonies
  • Passion Parties
  • Washing away sins

   

•  You might belong to the Vulture Clan, if . . .
  • your animal helper is a sock puppet master.
  • you received your Osage name in a ceremonial dinner held at a local steak house.
    •  your name probably translates to "eagle chief" in english.
  • you bestowed the title "Dr." upon yourself in a Vulture Clan Ceremony.
  • you did not serve in the military but need to degrade the honor of those who did and do serve.
  • You believe that whatever comes to your mind is reality.
    • you know by thinking, because thinking is plain easier than learning, doing and knowing.
  • a certificate and degree just appears on your wall and you have no idea how it got there.
    • and your proud to have earned such a high honor.
  • you get your traditions by watching what white people do and work really hard to learn how to get what you want by deceit instead of hard work and fair trade.
  • The intoxication of power has so blinded you  that you you really don't care and "your gonna get while the get'ns good."
    •  Vulture traditions teach that you can always apologize after the "get'ns gone" and then none will remember.
  • you can't pass by an $100.⁰⁰ bill on someone's desk without it jumping into your pocket.
  • you prefer road-kill skunk stew to puppy soup.
  • your address is in somebody's pocket.
    • example statement: "I've got the X in my pocket."
    • example address: "BC in care of J's pant pocket."
  • the intoxication of power has so blinded you  that you honestly believe others can't see clearly what your doing.
    • This is the old "I can't see you so you can't see me," that well developed Osages "out-grew" around the age of 3.
  • your traditions include extending invitations to an Osage event having already secured a method for your guests to pick-up the tab.
  • your married to your cousin.
  • you have a second wife without have first earned the rites to more than one wife.
  • you treat your second-wife as a mistress.

   

•  Go ahead, we know your thinking of one. So instead of being a fun-sponge, click here and dare to share that very thought looming right there in your mind. Yes, that one!

• Vulture Clan History
  •  Of course, the Osage Vulture Clan is ficticius  - BUT - these Vulture Clan ways of being Osage unfortunately are NOT the least bit ficticius.
    • Vulture Clan traditions are rapidly growing and risk the complete and final destruction of the Osage People.
  • To participate in this exercise is to participate in influencing those Osage who partake in the above activities.
    • Hopefully our humor and play will influence everyone involved to consider their own actions and strive to make healthier choices and begin to correct the bad choices they have already made.
      • To correct our mistakes is Osage.
      • To simply give up on making good choices is NOT Osage.
      • To simply give up on any Osage because of their bad choices is NOT Osage.
      • To give an Osage the encouragement to correct their mistakes is Osage.
• To better understand how humor and play are traditionally used in the Osage to teach and to influence click here.