m/Marching into September with Florence
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Willy Wonka’s Chocolate River…I’d never seen the Eno quite this color…
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a half a wheel away
September 15, 201811 out of 362
July 21, 2018
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photos from central Viet Nam – July 2018
a grave green yard
May 12, 2018
or is it a grave inch
a grave day
a grave breath
a grave tree
a grave accounting of hospital arm bands sticky and hard to remove
a grave foot…
stone
or a grave headstone
close. up.
March 4, 2018
or is it…
up.
…then…
close.
sewing and snowing
January 17, 2018
peacocks transform what is poison for others into beautiful colors in tail feathers – these creatures are a longstanding symbol for genderqueer/trans and oppressed others’ power – we bring/demonstrate/teach/share/explore beauty and love and embodied autonomy and capacity for change with All Beings
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the quietude of this particular day is warm with birds and tracks, wool and time
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some part of me has always enjoyed the simplified symbol/cartoonish shape inspired by the anatomical heart…
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snow days are a quirky challenge, as i lose wages and gain space in other wei/ways – contemplative lifestyle + capitalism = strange blend
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made this scarf for someone – the very day after bemoaning to another artist/beloved that i was going to have to set aside artistic endeavors while i focus on sustaining my life with an overwhelming/lovely entrepreneurial endeavor – found me claiming space-time to sew lickety-split ; )
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surely allows time to draft a workshop proposal for an embodied learning summit focusing on racial justice :: draft of workshop title and description below…
…all and any feedback welcome!
title:
Nama Rupa and the Master’s Tools
description:
We communicate with postures before we ever speak. We form and then we name. We learn movements in gravity before we learn words. We reform and we rename throughout life.
All oppression in some way is oppression of the body. Yoga is a practice of liberating the body and mind. With cultivated awareness, even right down during and within particular conditions that outwardly and inwardly limit thinking/believing and feeling/being and acting/doing, we grow and we change.
With Audre Lorde’s oft quoted quote, let’s reach down into our deep present-past – before words – into our original language – movement. Let’s unpack the Nama Rupa of self and politics – names and forms unfolding in consensus reality. Let’s discuss, meet between words, re-write ourselves whole with broken/repaired bodies, minds, and All…
…versions of this workshop are also being drafted into articles/essays for a couple of publication potentials…
in the stillness of the sun
December 20, 2017
that’s not it.
this is it.
that’s it.
this isn’t.
winter’s wind and breath
each leaf moved differently
shaking gentle still
thanksgiven&taken
November 22, 2017
for the Eno People
for the Eno River
for brokenhearted ignorance
Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
Triangle Native American Society
Thanksgiving/Thanks-taking and Privilege
sp a c e as formmm
October 9, 2017
history of repeating divide and conquer can’t stop–
because the need for the strategy will not go away.
it won’t work; doesn’t succeed in its goals–
because we keep sticking together,
connecting, coalitioning.
we rise up with irascible constancy and love,
even under the thumb.
between, beyond, within
September 22, 2017where you’re from <——–> who you are
between, beyond, within
allyship <——–> identity
between, beyond, within
being exclusive <———> feeling included
between, beyond, within
students teaching <——–> teachers learning
between, beyond, within
bird landing <——–> parent dying
between, beyond, within
never the right time <——–> it is time
between, beyond, within
neutrality supports oppressor <——–> equanimity enables action
between, beyond, within
celebrating diversity <——–> further objectifying
between, beyond, within
dancer sleeping <——–> coma patient dreams in dance
between, beyond, within
poverty <——–> privilege
between, beyond, within
ignorance of intelligence <——–> wisdom of heart
between, beyond, within
sun setting <——–> lamp lighting
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“You have become undone, released, unmoored.
You are floating and will seek safe harbor.
This New Perspective will allow the insights to
pour out on us, seal us, reprove us, imprint on us,
teach us, reveal us, search us, speak to us,
instruct us, renew us, intercede for us, strengthen us,
quicken us, comfort us, lead us, sanctify us,
flatter us, humble us, right us, re-imagine us,
chastise us, and completely fall on us.
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“One who bears a bowl of water feels its weight,
but if you go right into the water it will be all over
you, and you will not notice the burden of it.
~ David Byrne, The New Sins, p. 93
(modified for gender neutral language)
summer solstice h-e-h
June 20, 2017
hhvn
rrth
hhmn
