Aboriginal - Girls Action Foundation

allow the next born to continue and build upon their love. When I look back at the
history of women, and especially Aboriginal women, I am filled with gratitude. I am
grateful for those who came before me and made choices from the love sphere so that
I can sit here and write these words. I have been able to achieve all the successes that I
have due to the love of many strong women leaders before me.
My journey on earth began with my mother who will forever be the first amazing leader I
have met. She honoured my needs with true love from the day she chose to have a child.
She knew that in order to have the best for her children she had to have the best for her.
She had many hurdles. My mother had overcome many stereotypes and racist beliefs
from the outside world to stand tall and proud as an Aboriginal woman today.
My mother chose love.
She honoured her self by leaving her small town and travelling the world. She embraced
a new way of life because that is what spoke to her. She followed a belief system that
a small town of Saskatchewan would find difficult to accept. She travelled to the great
Pacific Ocean and met my father. He was a Scotsman on a similar quest. She lived in
Scotland, India, Panama, and across Canada. She respected her beliefs and stood up for
them even when those closest to her sneered. Her beliefs developed as she continued on
her spiritual quest, she became a vegetarian when vegetarianism was not considered cool
and trendy, discovered and researched health benefits that would, in the end, keep my
father from meeting an early death. This all came from a place of love.
It only takes a moment of reflection on society to see how much fear we live within.
People fear what love offers, what love means; therefore, distrusting it. What would
the world be like if all leaders came from a place of love? Some may scoff and think,
Pollyanna syndrome, but what if we opened our hearts wide enough to allow that
thought? What if we sat and asked: what would love do?
How different could the world look?
How different could we look?
Sita-Rani MacMillan
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