It is miraculous that there is a possibility to end that cycle and create the life you always deserved. How do you want to spend your one wild and free life?

I believe all humans are outrageously creative. And every one of us needs to learn to be ok in the discomfort of resistance so that our genius can emerge. We need to be willing to engage in sacred warfare each and every day.

Colonization operates by creating a fundamental split. The split creates a belief in separation and disconnection.

I’m not sure who fired the first shot – nature or humanity. But somewhere long ago a great rift happened between humans and nature.

Take some time this week and do an inventory. Let your body tell you what feels ok, what feels not ok. You’ll know the ‘not ok’s’ by how it feels, like size-four jeans on a voluptuous and sexy size-twelve body. You’ve grown, in a good way, and your body knows it

You see, the patriarchy is the soup we swim in. Like fish in water, we don’t see its influence, or how it shapes our thought, or more accurately, our non-thought.

When we numb out or rush past grief, we also limit our capacity for joy and presence. You can’t selectively numb out one emotion, without compromising your ability to feel another. 

If the pandemic has done anything to me, it has stripped me of what I thought was real and important. It has removed any last drop of energy that I might use to effort myself into something other than my true authentic self. It has robbed me of any emotional reserves to endure ‘normal life’ any longer. If anything, the pandemic has laid me bare.

When people ask me, ‘What’s the point?’, I say to them, ‘this is the point’. To find our way back home within the greater order of things. This is why I remain somewhat hopeful in these dark times, because when I hang out in the good company of nature—feel its welcome—I feel my connection to an infinite capacity of heart. It is then I know a new possibility for us.

How hopeful. How empowering. The key to a peaceful and sustainable world may be closer, simpler, more in our own hands and therefore more attainable than we think.

The world needs you and your empathic gifts. But it needs you to be clear, healthy, balanced, sane and happy. Treat yourself like the unicorn that you are and learn how to take care of yourself in the unique ways your body, mind, and heart need.

Here’s the thing—we cannot solve the distortion within the distortion itself. We cannot heal the polarization in our communities by asserting ‘facts’ within the untruth of separation.

Then we must turn our attention towards creating conditions for everyone to thrive. We must set up policies, structures, and institutions that ensure the love, safety, and belonging of all humans.

I learned first-hand that we are not biologically designed to run non-stop without pause. I also learned that there was only so much that efficiency could earn me.

Humans are challenged by an existential hunger born from a false belief that we are limited, separate and alone.

On a hot, humid afternoon, a small dog-like creature nibbles on fruit suspended above a lush fern-covered ground. The thick jungle forest is bursting with sound, as this is a time when mammal life explodes with innovative evolutionary options.

Calling in—what does that mean exactly? For me, it’s an internal posture of bringing someone towards what I know is good and right and true.

On behalf of love, go ahead––get mad. Let your blood boil, raise your hackles, get your dander up, be in a huff. You won’t find me stopping you.

By Sunday afternoon I felt I had been hit by a truck. I had come face to face with the fact that I was part of the problem. My ignorance around racism was keeping me embedded inside an oppressive system. It was a grim moment of self-reflection.

But now we are grown adults and even though the direct childhood influences are no longer there––the stake gone, the chain no more––we remain imprisoned by our narratives, wandering only within our twelve-foot circle even though in reality our freedom, happiness, and fulfillment are just beyond our imagined limits.