Johnny Rustywire: Old Man Kee Bedonie frets about a ceremony

Old Man Kee Bedonie sat down at the small wooden table at his place and looked out through the screen door to the east as the sun set and from there the colors of the rainbow appeared, turning everything gold, yellow, orange with a tinge of purple and finally a dark blue. But his mind was on a sing that was planned on the flat area not too far from his place. He was wondering how to get it done.

He had many sons but they were far away from home living elsewhere. Some said they would be home to help but as the time grew near they all had other things to do.

There was wood that had to gathered, cut and hauled in for the bonfires at night to give light to the doings there. Also water had to be hauled in for the livestock. Someone had to go visit relations to see if they could help.

Bedonie's old truck could not haul all the needed things and he was not as strong as he used to be. He looked at a distant juniper fence post and remembered taking hours to cut it with an axe because the wood was so hard and then digging the corner post hole and setting rocks tied with wire buried underground to set it so it would not move. That was long ago but the post was tall and straight and never moved and was strong.

He realized he could not do that anymore...and maybe this whole sing was not going to happen as he did not have the strength to do all that was required. So he sat there and thought about who could help him---and realized that everyone around the area wanted to be paid now days. He went to bed with the thoughts of how to get this all done.