h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I am in the way of planning in my heart to make a journey. I will make this journey after the gathering of my kin in three weeks. I will make this journey to prepare for another. I will make this trail in the footsteps of my fathers and my people, both with my feet and too, with my heart.
By taking up the path of my fathers I will find clearly what my heart knows and what it still must learn. The path of those who are gone before will lead me to the new path and then I may leave behind me this present path of quaking ground. In my mind I have travelled very far in time. I have even gone there in my spirit. But I am only a ghost to my fathers and my people. Because my place is here.

I do not wish it to be so, but was told by the shaman when in spirit I entered his lodge. He had no fear of me for he is a shaman and understands such. Though he has gone on to his fathers many many years before I was born,still he is, but only in a place among the campfires of our fathers.

He say's to my spirit, "Why do you trouble the living? Go back to your own place." I say to him, "Nugomonishwii, I am no evil spirit I am one of your people, this is my place." He speaks again to say, " you are lost, you go back now and find the trail where you left off, you go and leave this place in peace." I explain to him that I am born for two places but do not even rest as a man with just one place of his own, this is confusing to my heart and causes me much grief.

Nugomonishwii says to me, "Come take a place here and we will smoke tobacco and you will rest before you go." Nugomonishwii lights his pipe and passes it over the fire of his lodge three times, once for the setting sun, once for the rising sun and once toward me. Then so that I too can smoke with him he scatteres tobacco into the flames. "Rest now if you are able then I will send you on your way.".

I cannot find rest here and say so. He says to me that to have two paths is not the order of the creator. To have two paths is a grave burden. To have two paths means my spirit will never rest because my spirit cannot stay and dwell in the lodges of my fathers when the time comes to cross over to them. He says I must choose a path and if I cannot then I must make a new path. That is the order of things and there is no peace for one who wars against the order made by the Creator.

I am thankful and I leave his lodge. He sings blessings for me, he sings to Gichimanito and I am returned to my dwelling.
In my heart I make plans to travel. I make plans to find my path. I make plans to be at peace so that one day I will be at rest and able to welcome my children and theirs to my lodge in the heavens. I will visit the old shaman there and he will welcome me and we will smoke tobacco.

When I have rested I will write the course of the journey I intend to make and write the supplies I will need. Supplies for one, or for two if my wife wishes to come. For now my mind needs rest.