Cherokee Winter Wren shirt

ᏥᏍᏥᏍ - tsis-tsis/ jis-jis (Winter Wren) The wren is singing "ᏫᏓᏥᎦᏛᎴᏍᎪᎢ - widatsigatvlesgoi (I go back and forth through it)." I was sitting by the creek this winter on a warm day when I saw jis-jis flitting around going in and out of little cracks between the rocks along the face of a waterfall. This made me think of jis-jis’s scientific name, Troglodytes troglodytes, which means "cave dweller" and how in Cherokee wisdom, some animals are conduits between our world and that below, and how caves connect these worlds. The long word "widatsigatvlesgoi" describes what the jis-jis was doing and reminds me of its very long, melodious song.