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So, where are we now?
An invitation to tea.
You are the universe embodied.
A cooling sack of stars
How will you orient yourself within these times?
* Is this an enforced crisis? My opinion is in here.
* with all that is happening, where are we? Well where are you choosing to be
* how taking time for yourself can REALLY serve you in your orientation
* our art matriarch’s essential question - who lives in here
* what about that identity if yours - what do they have to say
* with climate change and war and insecurity, chosen consciousness is key
* life saving tea time
Let’s breathe together.
Shiloh Sophia
Sue and I prepping for my first art show…1994
So here we are. But where exactly are we? Here we are right in the middle of an evolutionary change that's at such a magnificent scale that it's hard for us to grasp where we are. Whether we're looking at economics, food, war unemployment, politics.
No matter where we're looking, we can see that we're in a different place than we've been before. And we find ourselves wondering, what in the world are we going to do? Like 10 years ago, our activism looked different. The things that matter to us, diversity inclusion literally just equal rights for all let alone a freedom to pursue happiness. It's different now because we are at a level of enforced crisis. I say enforced because it's manipulated and created. Because the climate is speeded up to the degree that we can't evolve at the same degree that the needs of the planet are changing. Prophecies have indicated we are in different versions of end times, even though they name it something different.
Meanwhile, many of us have friends and family who also appear to think that there's a lot of really good things happening. And there are a lot of really good things happening.
So there's a question of where are we now as a species, as a people? But then there's just:
Where are you now? Where are you orienting yourself inside of your own experience? Are you choosing your relationship to “What Is” or just responding and reacting to the things around you?
Will you pause with me right now and just take a breath?
You know, let's change that. Let's not say take a breath.
Just receive a breath. Because the breath is happening naturally.
The most beautiful things in life. The birds building the nest on the porch right now. The rising of the sun over the trees. The most beautiful things in life right now. have always been the most beautiful things.
Of course, to be loved. Of course, to have a nest, to build a little family. To have beauty. And sometimes even quiet. To have enough.
I think the sad and sometimes sorrowing and harrowing reality is that we know it could be different. We know it didn't have to be this way. And we don't know what to do.
We're not sure where to turn. Yet somewhere deep inside of ourselves we know that we've been a part of creating, this at whatever level, you or your ancestors, or any way we look at it, we're all one, we're all interconnected. So we're all creating this and it doesn't appear right now as if we're going to be able to uncreate it in any amount of time that's going to make the biggest difference in terms of species going extinct or climate change, natural disasters.
So the thing we have is our consciousness, our relationship to ourselves, the observer looking out from these eyes. Are you still breathing?
Sue Hoya Sellers, our art matriarch, used to ask this question: Who lives in here? And she would tap her body. Who is it? What identity has colonized this particular matter called my body? Which she called my sacred address. A sacred address. A space or place where identity inhabits inside of a bubble called soul that appears to have traveled with us. Since the beginning of creation. If you are a cooling sack of stars. That iron which make
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