* REFLECTION* sigh sigh sigh. I have felt really out of the loop lately when it comes to politics. i know that i have been intentionally avoiding getting pulled into the sway with michael brown verdict and all of the work being done around police brutality, extrajudicial killings and the rising threats to our peoples and our earth in this time. its very hard to describe this feeling... all my life i have been someone who was extremely passionate and committed to the notion of justice and human rights. in the last decade i have been deepening a practice around self-love and more recently, healing. deepening my own healing, and in doing so, i really feel i am deepening my own understanding of what justice, decolonization, and liberation can really look and feel like. What I am trying to internalize is a more balanced presence that allows me to be responsive to what is happening communally and globally, while still staying grounded in my own role, not tossed around by the rage of current events, which often makes me feel like I am at the mercy of the system, but in as much as I can, cultivating my own skills and offerings, and giving, acting and organizing from a place of clarity, vision and purpose. Its odd to both feel that I am more distant from movement work, as I also feel that social crises are becoming more urgent and severe. All of this to say, I am deeply grateful for the strength, clarity, purpose, and ase of all of those leading the way in Fergusen, Ayotzinapa, Palestine and beyond. especially for the mothers who mourn children, and also for those who care for children even as they watch others die. I am deeply grateful for all those who are in their sacred purpose right now, who are stepping forward on the front-lines of working class, displaced, marginalized, incarcerated, oppressed, and women and children and trans struggles worldwide. Rather than running to face every front line as I did in my youth, I am learning to respect my own ase (sacred life force) and the ase of those around me. Let the fierce organizers organize, and I will learn and do my part. I know that my role is in healing, and building, visioning the world we need even as we resist the one that binds us. Planting seeds in the cracks, making art on the concrete walls, coming home to our breath even as we lose the places we call home around us, restoring our relationships to ourselves and each other; healing our relationship to our ancestors, who are calling louder than ever, and whose guidance we need if we are to win. I am cultivating my own strong ase, so that I can be ready for the frontline that awaits me. So I can build, grow and root where I stand. Nature is our mirror. All of us cannot do everything, but each of us can do our part and contribute to the harmony, strength and longevity of the whole. #allthatyoutouchyouchange #allyouchangechangesyou #earthseed
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 02:13:37 +0000
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