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To counter that, we have to dream with our feet in the sand. We’ve got to remember we are sacred
beings, intact with our erotic longings, our bodily desires, our sexual energies. All that is part of
our power.
I asked my mom where I came from. She told me from under her armpit as the picture
of me as a newborn was cradled under her armpit… Until the day she passed at 88
years old, I had never seen my own mother naked. The implicit messages I’ve received
throughout my life around sexuality and naked bodies are: it’s a taboo subject, not to
be talked about out loud or at all. Bodies are to be covered up, not to be seen
in its natural state. Sex is… (blank). Void. Null. My mother was a
gorgeous, funny, proud, self-reliant, progressive person.
There are so many conversations I wish I could go back
in time to ask her… and to help her heal; help me heal.
—Shiree
Capitalism thrives on things. So many things have been
manufactured to separate us from the earth. Systems
have trained us to value things over people and the
earth. Moving from disconnection to greater
connection requires us to shed our “things,” masks,
protective armor and to soften back into our eros,
imagination, dreams, who we really are at our essence.
To counter the dominant practices of extraction and
self-denial, we need to be in active dialogue with the
earth. Take walks. Talk directly to the land. To the wind.
Meditate as a way to connect with the land and as a way
to listen. Make offerings.
One of those things that is sustaining me
is having the presence of these very wise,
I call these trees the wise ancestors, I go out
at night often and I touch the trees just as a
moment of grounding and restoration.
—Frankie Blackburn
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