Love Medicine

Wow! Love Medicine made of turkey gizzards and holy water! That turned out to be a disaster. Grandpa dying or wanting to die and Grandma left alone with Lipsha feeling guilty. Well at least Lipsha found out who his father was. Many of us wish for love medicine to increase the love in our lives but love comes from giving your heart and not your body. You should notice if someone doesn't really love you by theri actions. Grandpa Kashpaw loved the idea of having a wife and having LuLu to lust after producing child after child. The love medicine that should have been used is the love medicine of discplining yourself and spending more time with the ones you love and not the ones that love to make love. Sometimes you think that your family is the only one with the problems and blame most of it on chemical imbalance or genes. If you look closely at other cultures they go through the same thing but handle it in a different way. When I think of the Indian culture I think of tribes that were chosen for marriage and children were born of that union. Maybe I have been watching too much television. After reading Love Medicine I know that this isn't true if it was before. Traditions in every culture should be respected for it is the ways of our ancestors that have cleared the way for us. I think if we listened to the elders of our families that have paved the way for us, we wouldn't have so much dysfunction. Because the world change we can change with it but our traditions shouldn't get faded away because its not the norm. When I read Family Linen and Love Medicine I thought "same ole thing." It reminded me that it doesn't matter who you were born too, we should take the traditions of our ancestors and apply them to our lives. Look around now and see the destruction that we as people have put families and our environment through. Marriage isn't sacred anymore and death is a joke. Where is the compassion! When June died, Zelda and Aureila could only remember how they tortured her and the bad things she did. It goes to show you that death isn't mourn anymore just criticized. I think this book was great to read and I will keep it close to my heart. Reading a comment today from a classmate, she felt that Love Medicine had to do with identity and conforming to white society. Everything is not just white society! We all have identity crisis once and awhile, but these people who tried to find themselves ended up losing themselves because they wouldn't change who they are. The best love medicine is the medicine of loving oneself so you can spread it down to the next person. Cureses, oils, liquids, or healers cannot do this for you only letting love take over your heart.