Last month’s Becoming Turquoise intensive on intergenerational accountability was a necessary ceremony for those of us who gathered. We danced with our generations, we listened beyond our fears, we gathered the traced of the connections we have, we traced the longing for the connections we don’t have and might not ever get. We gathered together while in the midst of makeshift pilgrimages, at the end of major writing projects, after recommitting to our practices and with so much love. And while we knew that many of the contemporary challenges we face at this time contain sinister echoes of oppressions our ancestors face, oppressions we don’t want to bequeath to younger generations, we could not have specifically guessed that Nazis and KKK members would openly harm people (so much like the 1979 Klan attack against peaceful economic and racial justice organizers in Greensboro) and that it would be explicitly condoned from the highest government offices. And we sure as heck weren’t thinking that the president would be actively trying to instigate nuclear war on twitter.
At this time, we want to offer the wisdom we rooted down into then as a reminder, a healing salve and a resource in which to ground your necessary actions at this time. I honor and affirm the knowing wisdom of the young black activists in Durham, NC who took removing a confederate statue into their own hands, and encourage you to contribute to the bail fund for those who have been arrested in relationship to taking down the statue and also in relation to showing up at court in solidarity with those activists. You can donate here.
Also, sign up closes tomorrow for this summer’s last intensive When Wind and Water Got You: Place, Purpose, Past and Presence. There are a couple of spots left.
Love always
Sista Docta Lex
i know
by the participants in the Becoming Turquoise: Intergenerational Accountability intensive
ancestors are holding us always
i know
dancing is sacred
i know
my ancestors love to dance
i know
the sacred sounds reverberate
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the funk is lasting
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the cosmic dancefloor is LIT
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sunshine is healing
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clouds have lessons for me
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monsoon rain is my favorite rain
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the thunder is not the danger
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the oceans are calling
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the whales are finding us
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i am both saltwater and freshwater
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we can swim anywhere
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animals, plants, birds are our medicine
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all the stones are singing
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broken jaws heal
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purple light is healing
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what one of us heals for ourselves heals for all of us
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maplessness leads to treasure
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even haplessness leads to treasure
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private property has never made sense
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giving love to the babies is an answer
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it is safe to love unconditionally
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dirt water fire rock come down the mountain as they always have and always will
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Gwendolyn Brooks was right
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the third eye beams like a searchlight
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love is life-force (i better act like)
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i am an alchemist
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every move is guided
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turquoise is a gift
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turquoise stones, turquoise waters, turquoise sounds
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all of me is a gift
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giggling is magic and contagious
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time to be unabashed in our love and in our joy
i know