liberation requires us to choose ourselves and one another

What the ancestors keep saying

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Collective liberation requires us to choose one another on this side of the veil and beyond.

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In liberated realities, the care, love, and belonging we extend to ourselves and one another cannot be conditional.

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On our best days and our worst days, the work of liberation is the practice of choosing to love ourselves and one another.

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[image of a black and white photo of a beautiful dark-skinned black woman with full lips and a short afro. Her eyes are closed, and water droplets pool across her face. A semi-transparent gold leaf is over her left eye. A patterned background with diagonal lines is behind her in black and white. quotes read [1]Collective liberation requires us to choose one another. [2] In liberated realities, the care, love, and belonging we extend to ourselves and one another cannot be conditional.[3]On our best days and our worst days, the work of liberation is the practice of choosing to love ourselves and one another.

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Elder Wisdom

In these times of deep change, collective grief & revolution, we offer our field of practice, Elder Wisdom.

In this offering, we affirm that our collective ability to practice embodying love and liberation is part of how we dismantle oppressive systems in our worlds and our bodies. And we invoke every layer of ancestral resource that desires to support us on this journey.

We offer a glimpse into the pillars that have supported us in deepening our connections with our ancestral ecosystems as we continue exploring the practice of embodying love and liberation in this lifetime.

For folks who wish to engage in a field of practice rooted in love and liberation and shaped by curiosity, these are foundational aspects of what we offer in Elder Wisdom.

There is no magic formula, linear methodology, or pathology for connection; instead, we offer an experiential field of practice because we trust that our bodies are portals of connection to the Elder Fields of Wisdom and Ancestral Ecosystems that live within us.

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a reminder

we are not at the beginning or the end of the collapse; we are in the thick of it— co-creating it in real-time.

let go of the timelines- linear time is irrelevant amid the grief and death that intersects with the impulse to live.

time here is measured in thickness

it demands a thickness of presence

a thickness of being.

we are engaging collapse with every fiber of our being.

it is being archived in our tissues and cells, stretching across our bones.

there is no possibility inaction, we are tethered to one another by intra-actions because, beloved, we are ecological beings.

doing nothing is doing something; it is still an act of participation.

every action, thought, prayer, ritual, way of being, and breath is participation.

may love and collective liberation be the center of our beings and all we strive to build.

may love and liberation accompany us as we mid-wife these systems through their collapse in bodies and our worlds.

may we remember that when love and liberation rest at the center of our beings, all generations will be fed by our lives, and all beings move closer to embodying love and liberation.