CALLING NAME
At my third winter
My Father spoke to me.
He gave me a calling name.
He called me
Turtle People’s Child.
And . . . when I was tall . . . he said
Now you are Turtle Woman.
I am called Turtle Woman
And I walk the path my Father showed me.
As he walked it.
As his Father walked it before him;
The path that is always old,
Forever new,
Each life creating
A path that is always the same,
Forever different
From all the others that were
And will be.
So be it
For so it is.
Paula Underwood –
Turtle Woman Singing