I Believe This To Be True

• Any creature that feels unsafe is potentially dangerous.

• Behavior makes sense if you know the whole story. We often don't. Understandable is not the same as excusable. 

• Everyone is doing the best they can with what they've got. A person's best is sometimes under-resourced (shitty).

• The universe is an expanding system, one sacred whole that is ever transforming.

• The key indicators of health in any ecosystem (be it a human family or a planet) are levels of biodiversity and interconnection.

Choreography I Love

 

Go, boys!

Loss

 

you don't realize it yet

that this is when

you began to lose him

each ship sailing on

as it was meant to sail

(needed to sail)

parting company

you thought your work was done

your gaze shifted

loss is a surprise

in the wake of your vigilance

with loss

will come grief and shame

their own ocean

to drown in or cross

to be a child

who has lost a child

is a risk for

eldest daughters

Mother Lover

 

Woman as mother. It changes everything. It doesn't matter what you mother into being - a child, a song, yourself - woman as creator is the thing.

Some Slippery Words

Religion is mythology that has present day believers.

Terrorism is retaliatory aggression by the side with less power.

Immigrant is an ex-pat from the global south.