Imaginal Journal
Imagination is Medicine
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible with Charles Eisenstein
Went to see Charles Eisenstein at a speaking engagement and found myself profoundly moved to be of service in this paradigm shift. Highly recommend his book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible
Ecocide by Cristina Benitez Allen
Indignation is our invitation.
Let it begin to teach us
about our dignity,
begin the work of digging
with dirt in our nails,
willing to become intimate
with the wisdom of the soil
only found by the demolition
of the concrete that
we assumed would be
our soft landing.
Now we long for the sweet grass,
the sweat lodge,
the sweet sweat of communion
with the warm mother.
Or we continue to ignore
this yearning all together
and yield only profits
and global warming
until we are all underwater,
engulfed in our unconscious
and forced to rebuild by collapse,
when instead we deserve
sweet surrender.
Sumo by David Hockney
Sweet magical colors! Loving this bright start to the year visiting the Taschen Gallery for David Hockey's giant new book SUMO.
20th Century Women
Loved Mike Mill's portrait of his mother and their relationship in this film. Makes me think of how loneliness can bring people together in solidarity and kinship.
KinShip
And so it is. Over eight years ago I saw this ship on the cover of a first edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude. I knew then I wanted this as a tattoo but it wasn't until debilitating injuries forced me to forge a new path and uncover my own myth when I finally read the book cover to cover on a trip to Mexico before I started grad school. This year my entire family were able to return together to Mexico, it also marks ten years since my abuelita Brigida passed. This ship with no sails is symbolic of the legacies that move from generation to generation and the magical stories engendered to make sense of it all.