The seeker is constantly challenged. Enlightenment and evolution are what our souls long for. Our hearts cry out for clarity and discernment in search of our spiritual path and self realization. There are no solid or easy answers. It is our shared experience and compassion that sustain and support us through life.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg was in New York City tirelessly inspiring us all to go on strike and demonstrate actively for climate change.
In events leading leading up to her appearance at the UN Summit, we all watched as she called on our world leaders to do something now.
"We are not just some young people skipping school," she told thousands of school strikers in Manhattan, on a day when millions around the world demonstrated for action. "We are a wave of change. Together, we are unstoppable."
Listening in on the sound healing global summit for a few days now has been a mellowing experience. Today it is made more so by the soft light rain that has cooled off the bite of yesterday's aggravated heat. Dismantling the tension and rush of the past days.
This isn’t the only world that’s possible.
YES! illustration by Fran Murphy
This reminds me of an article I read - "Can we work less and save the planet too?" Its byline states, "Building a new world will require first reexamining - and dismantling - the cultural ethos of productivity that creeps into our lives every day."
Manifest Dismantling would purposefully undo the damage of Manifest Destiny by reckoning with productivity’s assault on the living world. Tearing down a dam would be an example of a creative act of Manifest Dismantling because it would facilitate the return of an ecological landscape.
This all started with a conversation between Nainoa Langer and Sam Potter as they sat above a waterfall overlooking a childhood swimming hole.
Nai said, “We should start a travel-based series that gives people an in-depth look at cultures around the world,” in hopes that we could create something that encourages greater appreciation, understanding, and respect between cultures.
Sam's response was “Let’s start with home.” So, here we are.
The first thought when it came to explaining a place as complex as Hawaii was people need to understand that there are two parts to the culture - the traditional side and the modern day side.
Our modern-day life represented by Kimi Werner, demonstrates our values, the way we care for each other, for our community, and for our environment.
The traditional side represented by Micah Kamohoalii, shares a little about the history of Hawaii, the practices of the Hawaiian people.
Most importantly, Aloha, what it means and how that too can be practiced.
"La Loba sings over the bones she has gathered. To sing means to use the soul-voice. It means to say on the breath the truth of one’s power and one’s need, to breathe soul over the thing that is ailing or in need of restoration." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes ~
Georgia O'Keefe
Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back.
Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.
Wild Woman comes back. Singing over the bones.
This is called "Mater Dolorosa," the Unruined Heart. It is a blessing on you. You can have pain. You can have tragedy. You can have devastation. And still, still a heart will remain unruined.
"It has to be in you, it is in your dreams. Dreams are the center of your psyche. So at the center of your psyche is all this wholeness, all this fullness, all this unruined heart."
This work, Untie the Strong Woman, is a continuation of all other works of Dr. Estes. She looks at the largest archetype of the holy, integral woman from many different angles.
Wild Woman, Wise Woman, Holy Woman - we share the same heartbeat.
Every citizen of the United States of America is affected by Donald Trump. Whether we voted for him or not we are stuck with him for now.
This recent rally of his in North Carolina was yet another powder keg. Setting off fireworks in many camps and dividing an already fractured country even more. “Send her back” echoed Trump’s widely criticized tweets from over the weekend, when he said Ilhan Omar and three other congresswomen of color should “go back” to their home counties, where the “governments are a complete and total catastrophe.” It was just so wrong on so many counts. 😠We need to be better than opting to chant derogatory insults like #SendHerBack. #damnTrumpism #shameonTheDonald #pretendpresident #foreverlyingfool #STOPthisbully #endhisWHITEsupremacy
Typical of the Donald to ignore that fact that these same women are not just American citizens but that they are elected officials of this country too. It is hateful behavior and demeaning to all human beings when our country's leader is such a petty puny tyrant. Picking away at so many with utmost impunity is an absolute abuse of authority. Whatever this buffoon expects to achieve by such dastardly behavior stumps us all. Even his own party's most expert spin artists have failed miserably to cover his fat ass and potty mouth. Every waking day in office he poisons our well. Long after he is dead and gone we will have all his horrors to recount. Whether we can outlive them or heal the rifts of this nation will really be up to us. Not him. Never the likes of him.
