Last night Brilliance Remastered‘s Spill Webinar for sustainable strategies to build an intellectual life that exceeds the boundaries of the academic industrial complex continued. We worked with our dreams (as in intentions) and our dreams (as in the layered picture show that happens while we are asleep) as resources informing each other.  We looked at what is at stake ancestrally in the way we structure our intellectual lives.  We claimed our power as alchemists to turn what we have into what we need by bringing our transformative questions to the table.   This is the poem that we created together to describe the changes we are here to see through to reality.

turning paper into food

by the participants in the Spill Webinar

 

how do we turn fear into love?

how do we turn worry into wishes?

how do we turn attention into attunement?

 

how do we turn hope into happiness?

how do we turn concern into courage?

how do we turn care into creativity?

 

how do we turn today into a portal?

how do we turn our bodies into magic?

how do we turn shame into a wholehearted embrace?

how do we turn walls into bridges?

 

how do we turn thought into action?

how do we turn caterpillars into butterflies?

how do we turn promises into pages?

how do we turn bravery into blessings?

 

how do we turn fixity into movement?

how do we turn jobs into journeys?

how do we turn one into we?

 

how do we turn the ocean into words?

how do we turn words into the ocean?

 

how do we turn markets into communities of accountability?

how do we turn gatekeepers into prophets?

 

how do we turn training into underground railroad stations?

how do we turn survival into a promise?

 

how do we turn proof into possibility?

how do we turn righting into writing?

how do we turn teaching into truth telling?

 

how do we turn interventions into invitations?

how do we turn novelty into knowing?

how do we turn talking into drumcall beating hearts?

 

how do we turn boxes into breathing?

how do we turn birth into being?

 

*note: if you be asking yourself these same questions…you must be a Brilliance Remastered kindred spirit.  Put yourself on the email list right here.
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