#resist #insist #persist

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. 

With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness - and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe. 

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. ~ Arundhati Roy 

addressing the colonized mindset - then & now

We must understand what we could lose if the actions of this Trump administration go unchecked. It's on all of us to save our country and world from the rampaging destruction of these nihilistic authoritarians and greedy kleptocrats. 

signs & symbols

The latest release of Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two fulfills my considerable fan girl dreams. The film lays bare what it takes for a precautious and vulnerable young heir uprooted from his privileged water logged life to become a mythic figure in the harsh desert environment of Frank Herbert's famed Dune. 

As Paul Atreides brings his enemies to their knees, shattering years of strangle hold - we cheer him on. The film adds more to the Bene Gesserit story through the women closest to Paul and provides even more insight into the sisterhood’s deep history and its goals. 

behind the scenes & creative process - images capture the making of the movie

I so reverently wished I could have a Bene Gesserit cult of my own! The Bene Gesserit knack for survival and scheming is most brilliantly personified in Lady Jessica - just as swiftly absorbed into the Fremen fold who view her abilities as yet another sign of Paul’s godhead. 

Pinay dream weavers

The Ayala Museum opens a new floor to showcase indigenous textile arts in the Philippines from the collection donated by Mercedes Zobel.

'Skeins of Knowledge, Threads of Wisdom' exhibit

The revamped textile exhibition, 'Skeins of Knowledge, Threads of Wisdom' demonstrate the ingenuity, creativity, adaptability, and sophistication of the early Filipinos. Woven dreams of our native women weavers. 

These skills and techniques have been passed on for generations and manifest today in contemporary weaves, designs and fashion that continue to keep these traditional arts and crafts alive and current.

textile exhibition guide

adventurers, pioneers, colonizers

It takes an adventurous spirit to head off into the unknown. To risk it all to pioneer a new life in a new world. Proud conquerors of much trial and tribulation.

No wonder colonizers often ignore, forget and intentionally bury their original sin. Invaders of a paradise who dispossessed its original inhabitants. Settlers in denial of how much they unsettled in staking their claims.

Violators of nature and its wilderness. Resorting to violence to tame their new home. Aggressively wiping off all other contenders. With no consideration for its original inhabitants - plant, mineral, animal or human.

Recorded or remembered the Philippines predates many of today's nations. Yet too many of its masses are kept ignorant and primitive. Byt the few who continue to rape and dishonor our country and its folks out of greed and power.

In the Philippines June 12 is designated as the birth of a nation and its independence day. Proud of its claim as the oldest democratic nation in Asia. The country's independence has remained on shaky ground from birth until today.

Long before the first colonizers invaded its verdant shores much of its primordial life and indigenous history had already been lost to winds of change and territorial warring.

The victorious rewriting history blinded by ahistorical visions of idealism and grandeur. Blanketing the past and hiding its truths in shaded stories and fraudulent claims.

How do we untangle this miasma when we can only guess at what may have been? How can we hold our ground when it too easily blows up or away when we need to hold on to it the most?

Paradise lost indeed. Persevere and preserve what is here now. All can still be revived and restored.

Sunday thoughts

This time last year Change Warrior was clear across the world - blogging about earth rumblings and volcanic eruptions. 

Today Change Warrior is reposting some worthy contemplation from Rick Jarow on A Culture of Awakening: The Inner and Outer Revolution. 

The post ignited some thought provoking ideas that shook me to the core and made me erupt at the cosmic joke being played out for us all. 

wishing on 1.6 billion stars

Photo Credit: Jack Fusco, Star Trails, New Jersey. 

The stars twinkled in the sky.

In space - billions of universes.

Silence.

Resting my forehead in my hand and thinking.

I do not dream.

A big Reality has awoken me,

A truth that strikes the eye,

The truth that is being, visible, unique,

Eternal:

I - under this huge starry dome,

I - perceiving its entirety with my brain,

I relish it, I become one with myself

And slowly - inside - I am restored to myself:

To profound joy and perfect rhythm.

All my thoughts, words and deeds

Were only bringing me closer

To universal embrace:

Here I am resting joyfully in myself,

Wrapped in deep silence on all sides,

And my heart beats in the rhythm of everything

Which surrounds me.

Enough. No need for words.

~ Julian Tuwim, translated by Adrian Thomas. http://tmblr.co/ZjYlFyVzI5BX

Image from "Your Shot," National Geographic. Taken on April 19, 2012, in Strathmere, New Jersey. These star trails show the Milky Way rising over the Atlantic Ocean.

time construct

Time is real. Time is a concept. It is all relative.

Where do you stand in this debate?

The Persistence of Time by Salvador Dali 1931

How do you approach time?

What is time to us? How does time feel?  How is it measured?

celebrate life, grieve loss, grow & gain

This week was filled with one eulogy too many. Life and death. Loss and gain. Joy and grief.

In any stage or phase of our lives, these are attendant attachments of every human being.

However well lived a life - in intent and application, in motivation and purpose, in success or satisfaction - its end does not always bring closure for those left behind.

wonder! wonder?

Last week I was looking forward to the 24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World Is Watching live broadcast on November 13 and 14.

I was to happily join this group in bringing the planet together to call on world leaders to create a global climate agreement at the upcoming UN talks in Paris.