We need to be together. We need to speak in sentences that do not hide the old knowing and are not prohibited. We need to call each other out of our distraction with words that our ancestors and our descendants depend upon for survival. We need to create a vital language out of memory and vision. We are called to share the stories we carry so that we can live within them. We need to speak the stories that shape us as a people and teach us how to live with the earth and each other. We are called to story, to language and to enact the new, true, ancient, desperate beauty ways that we are called to live. We need to be with each other in the story and language that describes and so creates the world for which we are longing. To live as outlaws outside of conventions which confine and manipulate us, to find the words and wisdom from which we are separated, as were African slaves and Native Americans, in order to break our minds. Without common language, without shared stories, without deep vision of the real nature of the world, there is no culture and so no community and so no power or possibility. Therefore, we are called to restore and piece together the broken, burned shards of once vital histories, to dare to know what we know, to see and understand with our hands and our feet what is irrefutable, to listen to the ancestors and the future, to the dreams and the signs, old syllables and unborn orations, birdsong, whale song and howl, the glorious and tormented recitations of wind, water, light and earth, to bring together a luminous grammar of connection so that through such shared conversations and our own emergent literature and culture, we make ourselves places to live that can survive these times. *Deena Metzger 3.22.2014
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:14:15 +0000
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