Doctor Omed's Ten Commandments Command
I really can't begin to invent my own ideal commandments, rules, guidelines, or even words to live by; such activity is alien to me. But I did find this in Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild (p. 56), and it pleased me so much I thought I would share it as a kind of response:
"The native people of northwest Alaska have been intent on clarifying their own value system in recent years. The effort is called the 'Inupiaq spirit movement'--the revival of Inupiaq spirit. On the wall of the classroom of the Kobuk school was a poster-sized list of 'Inupiaq values':
HUMOR
SHARING
HUMILITY
HARD WORK
SPIRITUALITY
COOPERATION
FAMILY ROLES
AVOID CONFLICT
HUNTER SUCCESS
DOMESTIC SKILLS
LOVE FOR CHILDREN
RESPECT FOR NATURE
RESPECT FOR OTHERS
RESPECT FOR ELDERS
RESPONSIBILITY FOR TRIBE
KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE
KNOWLEDGE OF FAMILY TREE
These warm and workable values are full of 'grandmother wisdom,' the fundamental all-time values of our species. Given a little stretching here and there, they'd work anywhere."
12:22:57 PM 
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