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Ritual is powerful but the ongoing work of holding the magic is essential.
For me this process of rooting new inner agreements and beliefs includes lots of post-it notes. I need visual reminders. I put my new agreements on my desk and I put reminders in random places that I will run across through out my day and week. In my wallet, on random days in my 2022 day planner, my dresser, its a fun game of hide and find with myself that helps me stay connected to what I am growing within myself.
What helps you in rooting in new agreements and beliefs?
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bell hooks died. I studied her a little bit in collage. Too little, but enough to stoke my little feminist, intersectional heart. Every time I read her my heart and gut jump a little. From the recognition of deep truth, and the challenge to think beyond whitewashed normative narratives with love.
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending.
If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life, which is that I’m a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it. But where I stand spiritually is, steadfastly, on a path about love.
May we all have the courage to strip down to love.
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May we also have to courage to extend compassion.
I love a good conversation that illuminates, educates, and has me do the squirmy work of looking at my own ignorance and blind spots. This was one. The interviewers were a bit cringe, but Alok is a treasure of brilliance and humanity. If want more understanding of the necessity non-binary gender expression in our world, listen and let mercy and love lead the way.
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A wish for your week:
