Sandi L Boucher (Red Thunderbolt, Loon clan, Seine River First Nation) presents a short Teaching Tuesday video using a personal beadwork mishap—spilled/unsorted beads from a travel mishap while moving—as an analogy for life lessons. She demonstrates the bead-sorting dish she normally uses, explains how the beads scattered during her move, and draws a teaching: when things go wrong, slow down, invest a little time to put things back in order, and learn from the experience. The tone is warm, personal, and encouraging.
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Foreign. Hi, everybody. My name is Sandy Boucher, Red Thunderbolt, woman of the Loon clan. I'm a proud member of Seine River First Nation in Northern Ontario, and I'm here today with this week's Tuesday teaching. And, yes, I'm grinning, one, because I know what I'm about to share with you is. And two, it never ceases to amaze me how many times a lesson is found inside something that seems to have gone wrong. And when we get over the emotion and the frustration, there it is, the lesson we need. So to explain this one to you, I have to show you some of the things I use, actually, to do my beadwork when I'm not working. So, first off, I wanted to show you this, and I believe it's like, actually like a dessert dish or whatever. You're supposed to put the dip in the middle and all the different veggies around the side. I have used this for years to sort the beads when I'm working on a project. And you can see the different colors. So whatever project I'm working on, if it's five different colors, three different colors, I put the colors in here, I do the project, and. And then when I'm done, the beads go away, so nice and sorted and controlled. And actually, right now I'm using a different container because I'm working on this, which, as you can tell, red lightning bolt. It's going to end up going on my lapel of my favorite blazer, just to make it a signature piece, my blazer. All that is well and good, and it works amazing when it works. Let's keep in mind, I just moved now. I was busy. I left my packing to the last two days, this dish. I was under the impression that I could actually just slip it into a bag and that it would stay safely level and travel from my old place to my new place. Are you laughing yet? Are you laughing at how incredibly naive that was? I think you can guess what I ended up with. Exactly. So the beads you see in the dish are the ones I've already sorted back out of here, because I know a lot of people and even me in my younger years would have said, just throw this out. That is just too much time, too much effort. But you know what? One, beads are expensive. Two, I don't like wasting things. And three, all it means all it's going to take is a little bit of time, and then everything's back the way it should. Did you hear the teaching? Maybe there's something going on in your life, and maybe it's frustrating, but all it needs is a little bit of time, then it's going to go back to the way it should be. I know. I appreciated the teaching and I honestly appreciate the requirement to slow it down, steady my life and my focus to sort through these beads. They didn't do anything wrong, they just reminded me and taught me that's a really lousy way to transport a tray of beads. I hope you appreciate that teaching and I hope whatever is going on in your life, whatever is a little off guilter or not the way it should be. I hope you take the time, put in the time to bring it back to the way it should be. Until next week. I love you. Talk to you soon. Bye. Bye.
