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Snippets from this week's drawn cards, journal entries, words read aloud together, thoughts + phone notifications (in chronological order):
Rituals, however, are a way to keep ourselves educated about
+ in tune with our internal + external realities.
When we let ourselves align with nature's ways,
what is best + healthiest for us will appear clearly + instinctually.
~Sarah Kucera, Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook
The mint that dried itself on the counter. Fresh turmeric + ginger root. Lemon. Local honey. Anti-inflammatory. Ritual relaxation, presence, connection to what grows + nourishes.
What does freedom mean to me?
Freedom from the constraints
of the way things are normally done.
English is a noun-based language,
somehow appropriate to a culture
so obsessed with things.
Only 30% of English words are verbs,
but in Potawatomi that proportion is 70%.
In that moment I could smell the water of the bay,
watch it rock against the shore and hear it sift onto the sand.
A bay is a noun only if water is dead.
When bay is a noun, it is defined by humans,
trapped between its shores and contained by the word.
But the verb wiikwegamaa-
to be a bay-
releases the water from bondage
and lets it live.
~Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
How would it change my view of shelter to think of indoor space after thinking of living in the world of living things- trees, sky, mushrooms, birds, milkweed, snow, moon...? Somehow my picture of my ideal shelter became smaller and the importance of furniture and a place for everything receded. It became only wall of windows and skylight.
When we release our expectations
+ attachment to specific outcomes,
we free the mind.
~Headspace
The presence of one good outfit for the situation is comfort...is (possibly?) enough. That might be worth investigating further.
Branches waving newly sprouted leaves in the breeze, the dance of the trio of robins in the grass, the alignment of that closest star, spinning planet and my own fingers creating shadow...all evidence that nature is home. All is interconnected. Love is the way forward.
"univocity" (one voice) of all being
~John Duns Scotus
"cosmic mutuality"
~Dawn Nothwehr
~John Duns Scotus
"cosmic mutuality"
~Dawn Nothwehr
Magical through lines.
Love,
Jane
Love,
Jane
