Last night was the first session of The Evidence Intensive: Futurists Beyond Fear. We gathered together as evidence of our ancestors and the legacies of movement work that have made us possible. We called in our communities of accountability. We described the insides of our hearts and what we found there. We time traveled through our own lives unearthing wisdom, trauma, and longing from the different past and future ages of our own lives. We offered ourselves the archives of our own lives and reached for wisdom from our future elder selves to provide wisdom for this moment. We chanted, sang, hum, scatted, drummed and stomped “love is the most important thing” until every part of our bodies knew it and every age remembered. Here is the group poem we made about letting go. Can you choose one of these ways of letting go to focus on today?
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We Let Go
By the participants in The Evidence Intensive: Futurists Beyond Fear
“We did it. We shifted the paradigm. We rewrote the meaning of life with our living. And this is how we did it. We let go.” –from “Evidence”
letting go of feeling like there is never enough time
letting go of victimhood
letting go of missed opportunities
letting go of the pain in our backs from previous betrayals
letting go of the grief held in our bodies for all those who have passed
letting go when/where my ancestors could not
letting go of every shred of doubt that we make a difference in the world
letting go of every single temper tantrum
letting go of the old dust that has settled on our fire and is choking out our breathing
letting go of not breathing and fear of not breathing
letting go of fear of missing out
letting go of fear of being abused
letting go of fear, FOR REAL THIS TIME, I am taking fear off the pedestal I’ve had it on and replacing it with FIERCE POWER
letting go of not knowing
letting go of judging people who we feel aren’t as ‘enlightened’
letting go of anger at people who are so flaky
letting go of being right
letting go of playing small
letting go of needing others’ approval
letting go of guilt and shame
letting go of having to prove anything to anyone
letting go of apologizing (especially as women)
letting go of pretense
letting go of preconceived notions
letting go of tight constriction
letting go of the happy ending
letting go of resolution
letting go of self-recrimination
letting of trying to do everything and ending up exhausted
letting go of having to do it all
letting go of every message inside me head that contains the word “should”
letting go of control
letting go of this bra
letting go of capitalist expectations (girl, bye)
letting go like #sorrynotsorry
letting go of doubting our own brilliance and capabilities
letting go of regret
letting go of others’ expectations of me, even when they are people I love so dearly
letting go of those who will not meet me on the bridge, I can love me and them too, and still let go
letting go of what “never was but could have been” between me and all those lovers
letting go of the story about how i am always and will always be misunderstood
letting go and loving who and what is right in front of me
letting go of the need for proof, my soul is evidence
letting go of belief systems rooted in a perspective of lack
letting go of limited visions defined by consumerism
letting go of measuring the worth of a day by how “productive” i have been
letting go of linear time
letting go of that capitalist clock
letting go of nice, in exchange for deep kindness
letting go of neoliberal, neocolonialist imaginings to welcome revolutionary possibilities
letting go of survival, embracing liberation
letting go of my old selves, holding onto only the parts that serve me well
letting go of the story that I gotta earn love, remembering it is already all here
letting go of thinking our way to the revolution
letting go of worry, but embracing wisdom, intuition and deep knowing
letting go of pressure to finish the resource guide, it is done and it is wonderful and they all love me even more
letting go of the idea that this dissertation has to be smart, so it can be love instead
letting go and falling backward into a pool of cool, deep water that cleanses all the toxins and toxic energies, leaving me light and ready to receive
letting go so I can embrace the depth of me like oceans, the flow of me like rivers
letting go for peace
letting go firmly in touch with the reality that we’re all in this together
letting go to be grounded and sure
letting go of the weight/the heaviness, making space for that love to come in
letting go to feel again and again
letting go so I can feel lighter, feel what lightness feels like for once
letting go to embrace the lightness
letting go and falling into my dreaming
letting go while being FULLY present with every particle of my body, my spirit, m soul, backwards and forwards
letting go and embracing full and total love
letting go with laughter
letting go with grace and gratitude
letting go with pride in who we are
letting go to the sound of drums
letting go for my grandma and them
letting go for the babies
letting go with the babies!
letting go while dancing the dances of my ancestors
letting go with both hands open, my heart open and my feet stomping
letting go for the futures of those I love but can’t see
letting go with joy and delight
letting go while twerking
letting go while lusting, loving and learning
letting go into orgasmic joy
letting go with TRUST. trust in my intuition, trust in my ancestors, trust in what is to come
letting go with full trust in everything that holds me, including me
letting go sitting on handlebars and enjoying the ride downhill
letting go and never picking it up again
letting go everyday
letting go and arriving in this moment