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Sunny Savage

Wednesday August 22, 2007 in
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I have an announcement to make…I’ve changed my name. It’s something important to me, a decision I didn’t run out and do on a whim. For the past year the story of my ancestor Thomas Savage has really been coming through for me. At age 13 he left England for the New World. Arriving on the second boat into Jamestown in 1607, he was shortly thereafter exchanged with Namontack (a Powhatan boy). The two boys were designated to learn the language and lifeways of each others respective cultures. It is said that Savage had a close relationship with Chief Powhatan, as well as his famous daughter Pocahontas. He was a valuable man to Jamestown, and worked for the remainder of his life as a translator and negotiator. I hope to carry on his spirit of adventure and diplomacy.

Tree-ring data from the Jamestown area shows that the region was in the midst of a 7-year drought when the settlers arrived. The colonists wanted to trade for food, but the Powhatan didn’t have enough reserves. Disputes began to arise around food, and it’s an area of history I don’t want to see repeated. War is not the answer. The above photo has catsear flowers (Hypochaeris radicata) in the center of the sun. In the rays of the sun, from top to bottom, are salal berries (Gaultheria shallon), salmonberries (Rubus spectabilis), thimbleberries (Rubus parviflorous), red huckleberries (Vaccinium parvifolium), and himalayan blackberries (Rubus discolor). I saw a bear while harvesting the salmonberries, and in the spirit of the bear I hope that you are always gifted with the sweetness of life.

So, Sunny Johnson is of times gone by…and Sunny Savage was birthed into existence at 10:43 am on August 17th, 2007 in Los Angeles, CA. I’d like to leave you with these words from Marianne Williamson:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

Comment

  1. This is wonderful Sunny!
    You go girl! Someday I
    want to hear about your
    life in CA. Love to
    Salien. Love, Two Cooks

    — Margie · Aug 25, 06:27 AM · #

  2. congratulations, it suits you well! i love logging onto your site when i can and reading what you’ve been up to, i hope one day that you will return to world of oz and come and visit my little world(hopefully by then i will have a few acres and the garden that i’m dreaming of) take care, and keep in touch!
    love flick

    — felicty stanway · Aug 25, 07:56 PM · #

  3. Sunny, You continue to lead us all. It’s a wonderful thing that you’ve reached so far back to make the connection to your roots and to honor your ancestors with your name.

    Take care,
    Hugs to the young one,
    Sonja

    — Sonja (Sunny Raye) · Aug 27, 06:43 AM · #

  4. thanks for the amazing support ladies! It means a lot.

    much love, ~sunny

    — sunny · Aug 27, 11:53 AM · #

  5. Hi Sunny,
    That is wonderful.. it is a beautiful name :) I hope to talk to you soon and I enjoy reading about all the delicious food that you perpare !!

    — Dorte · Aug 28, 02:36 AM · #

  6. Hi Sunny!
    Sarah and I are just looking at the website this is pretty cool way to go. Keep up the good work. Come and see us when you come back to Minnesota, Hope to see you soon.
    Love,
    Emily and Sarah

    — Emily and Sarah · Jan 10, 02:12 PM · #

  7. yey!!! So good to hear from you ladies…as in Emily Levine & Sarah Alexander? Give me some info :)

    Happy New Year!
    lotsa love, sunny

    — sunny · Jan 10, 03:05 PM · #

  8. It was great meeting you guys in Hot Springs! I am amazed at your website and work Sunny. I am passing your name on to all my organic hippie friends! Good luck on your travels and hope to see you again!

    — Harmony · May 6, 12:05 PM · #

  9. thanks Harmony!
    was great to meet you as well. What a fun weekend…learned so much and met so many great folks.

    much love sent your way, ~sunny

    — sunny · May 6, 06:19 PM · #

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