we gotta remember...
dearest warriors,
we gotta remember that all that has come before this very moment of now, this breath here in your body, the thoughts swirling and/or anchored in your head, and all that we are experiencing in own individual story alongside the collective story of the world, the nation, the communities we are apart of, all of it is the momentum and manifestation of what has come before. which means, all that we do in this now, with our choices, with our actions, with our accountability as well as lack of, all of it is going to continue to impact the landscape of each and all of our lives long long long after our days are done…
there is no neutral in this world. all impacts all. and I am just so curious to ask you what kind of legacy are you leaving? what kind of world are you weaving? is it one where the children of the planet will be able to breathe? is it one where the autonomy and freewill our very own Creator has given to us is alive? is it one where we will get to show up and move freely and safely through this world? or will it continue to perpetuate the very poisons and insanity we are currently witnessing?
the beautiful part of all of the impact we make is that at anytime we can change our minds, we can regain a sense of perception bigger than the single i and belief systems we know, we can choose again, we can care more vastly than ever before, we can remember. for right in this very moment offers us an opportunity where we can open our hearts to the goodness we are and the humanity we have been losing sight of. we can, together in all of our individual ways, wake up to our power, our influence, our impacts, and turn on the lights more brightly and bravely than ever before to all the ways we are - or we are not - using our power.
in a world that outsources us to believe we hold no real impact as well as a culture that is normalizing day in and day out harm and hierarchy, violence and oppression, and blind trust to the systems outside ourselves while our own inward compass is bypassed and even forgotten, I just beg of you and us to please wake up, please open your heart and see how you are and are not honoring the very heart and pulse of our shared humanity and this story of us here and now.
leadership in this world has failed us time and time again. and I am tired of not allowing the truth of how our politics is not just personal, it is the very landscape from which I and you and every single other is either able and capable to breathe, move, take up space, survive, yet alone know and have the very birthright of thriving and peace. I’m tired of silencing that which needs to be named as we are all impacting and impacted by what is possible through our votes, belief systems, and need to be “right” and control not just things but lives and livelihood itself. as a woman in this world i’ve been entrenched to be quiet, to be complacent, to not stir the spaces that consistently stir and forget me, but i see now more clearly than ever that my participation in that patriarchy will only keep those ideals alive as well as limit the women and all forgotten voices alongside me and long after me.
my words may make you uncomfortable and that is more than okay with me as this world and the ways we have silently become complicit to this very lack of integrity makes me uncomfortable and that is not a dangerous thing - our lack of accountability however is, our lack of witnessing the webs woven and the knots that tie and tether us into believing this is how it has to be well that my friends is the real danger. so please, get uncomfortable with me, just as when we wake from a deep and dark sleep and the return of light to our eyes takes some time for adjusting, adapting, and finally - ahhh - that ability to see, it feels and is oh too similar in this process, power, and ultimate potential of waking up to our humanness and fight for humanity.
these times are critical and require our compassion and please do not get that confused for sympathy. “woe is me” is not going to change the landscape, boo-hoo is not going to empower us to finally lift our lids, perception, and see. it’s already in you. it’s already in me. and for some reason so much saturates us and shakes us so we do not see and do not even know we aren’t seeing, oh, but how I hope we do… and that is not just for the need of me and this now, this is the hope of leaving a planet to people and creatures and children who have yet to be born where they can know a way of life so just, so joyful, so free - empowered, awake, and able to see all that we haven’t been able to clearly.
when did we come to accept such a hardship of reality? when did we come to agree that we can place power over another or power under another - creating dependency, creating ideology that someone could ever be above or better than you or me? no one is less and no one is more- we are the ones and it is within us all and I hope that all that shakes and unsettles us in this now gives us the very road map home into our heart, home into our Spirit, home into all the wisdom we can feel if we just stop and witness all without the need to think.
feel. feel as though your very life and all that will come after yours depends on it. for it does. and any part of you that disagrees and resists that truth feel into that too… for what is that serving? what is that withholding? and where did that even begin?
we hold within us infinite power and potential and it pulses beyond your presence and now. it will continue to ripple and rage and resource the oppression or the liberation of this world. what are you willing to leave behind? and just a little fun fact from losing my folks i’ve learned so much about our Spirit and there will be a time where we all have that life review and we will see - we will see not only the choices we made and the imprints on the ones we love but also the ways it moved and magnetized throughout their lives and world. we will have our lives reviewed and we could wait and see the damage and Divinity done after our very last exhale, or we could take a few deep ones right here and now and start to review, start to remember, and truly realize what it is we can do - what it is we can change - and all the ways the Love within us just wants us to trust it’s infinite power and potential and let that be our web- our reign.
even as I am writing this a spider flew in with the wind and landed right on my quartz crystals next to me- what am i weaving? what world will i leave behind? and as i marveled in awe at the Divine timing of that intersection and feeling the impact of that totem and teacher, a monarch butterfly flew right in front of me sharing their wings as well as the beauty of what is possible through metamorphosis, changing from one form of being into another. reminding me as i am able to remind us it is our birthright to change. yet how much of us resist that change for ourselves and reduce that ability for others?
it’s all around us but most importantly, it’s within us- wanting to be felt, wanting to be regained. the current norm of our human experience, the current conditioning of this human experience, the circumstances and conflict and mirages of control are impacting us all. no one will get out of this unscathed. and no one is unaccountable. this is a mysterious and miraculous web that doesn’t want us to know and tangle us into tyranny yet to hold us with transparency, integrity, and all our Sacred power.
this is about becoming sane in an insane world. this is about becoming well in a very unwell world. this about waking up and remembering we each and all have power. so how we gonna use it folks? what legacy are we leaving? what webs are we weaving? for here we are, all of this human curriculum may just be the ultimate invitation to wake up and begin to see, all that we do and don’t do has a power, presence, and impact- far bigger than you and far bigger than me.
Leave some love and even your discomfort in the comments below. i love you and am with you in this work, world, and waking up, all too hopeful and ready for us to be free, for us to be well, for us to remember no one is exempt and there is no no no neutral- we got great work to do kids, the now and next is depending on us. may we remember.