Sandi L Boucher (Red Thunderbolt, Loon clan, Seine River First Nation) presents a short Tuesday Teaching reflecting on the lessons found in the act of moving. Using a thought experiment—imagining a society where everyone moves yearly—she argues that frequent moving discourages attachment to material things and encourages valuing people and growth from changing perspectives. She closes by noting this is her last week in the condo and that future videos will come from a new location.
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Foreign. Hi everybody. My name is Sandy Boucher, Red Thunderbolt, woman of the Loon clan. And I'm a proud member of Seine River First Nation in Northern Ontario. And I'm here today with this week's Tuesday teaching. Now this week we're talking about Teachings foundation moving. As you can tell around me, if you've seen the background in any of my other videos, it didn't involve boxes. All my froggies are gone from the top of the filing cabinet. Things are starting. There's nothing on the wall over here. Things are starting to look different. And of course it's a process. I had a lot of boxes to pack. And during that I was thinking about the teachings that can be found in our everyday. Now, to help you understand what I'm talking about, I want you to imagine. Wave your magic wand and imagine that we lived in a society that required that you moved every single year, even if it was just to another part of the town or city you live in. Now, I'm certain quite a few of you just went, oh my God, that would be horrible. I've lived in this house forever. And that's kind of my point. Imagine if you had to move every single year. You wouldn't get attached to material things like a home. Hopefully you would get attached to the people in it, the the ones that will move with you. You wouldn't get attached to material things. You wouldn't be collecting a bunch of useless stuff because you know you'd have to pack it and move it. In other words, you would only hang on to the things that are essential. And again, I hope that those things would be the people that you take with you. I hope that's who you would choose to hang on to with a move every single year. Think of what it would do to your outlook. I don't know if you've never moved or ever moved before, but when you're looking at the world from a new place, from a new view, even when you move the couch to the other side of the room, things change. And when things change, you grow. It adds to your wisdom. So I am not saying that you give notice today and pack up and move. I'm not saying sell your house and and take off to parts unknown. But make a conscious effort to decide what you're going to attach yourself to. Don't make it material things. Make it the people that love you and the people you love. I hope that resonates with you. I hope that makes sense. This is my last week in the condo, so next time Tuesday teachings will be coming to you from my brand new location with a brand new view. Until next week. I love you. Talk to you soon. Bye bye.
