I was sitting deeper in the barn and Jacob and Frank were silhouetted in the door with the rain falling hard beyond them.
I noticed Jacob was standing the same way Frank was standing. At 12, he wants to be like Frank is at 23. At 23, Frank wants to do what I'?m doing at 51. At 51, I want to be connected to the land like Lyle is at 75. Lyle'?s father died a long time ago, but Lyle is doing what his father did and still lives on his father'?s farm.
In the Spirit of Medicine features the essays of Dr. Arne Vainio, an enrolled member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and a family practice doctor on the Fond Du Lac reservation in Cloquet. His essays on life, work, medicine, and spirit are published in News from Indian Country and you can find the link to this story here.