TOKITAE CHANGED US. HER STORIES, HER SONGS CHANGED US.

BY Sam Crespi #SHE Forever Becoming

Photo by Elianne Dipp ib PEXELS

By Sam Crespi, #SHE Always Becoming

We came to sit in ceremony. It was a warm windless day, at the park close to Penn Cove on Whidey Island. Several hundred people from local villages gathered to sing songs, chant words that spoke to mourning, the loss of our beloved whale, Tokitae.