Where is your Headwater ?

Your own river collects itself like an underground cloud and starts dripping upwards, bursting, breaking through the lithosphere—ready to create gravity of aliveness around itself, the way a star does.

Every river has a headwater, a watering hole somewhere high up.

Headwater is a portal. Between the underground and overground—a melting space of transfiguration. This is where creativity condenses, swells, and emerges as a gift.

When the river is cleansed again it is free to flow; a woman's creative output increases and thereafter continues in natural cycles of increase and decrease and increase again. Nothing will be carried off or fouled for long. Whatever contaminants occur naturally are neutralized efficiently. The river retuns as our system of nourishment, one we can... See more

“ Always do this work first, others only when these do not call you. ”—what is this work for you ?

In the futures, I see awakening into perceiving creativity and agency as one of the highest virtues and values, in the context of work and community.

I am interested in a path that allows for receiving returns of our energy and creativity. Where our energy and creativity multiply and nourish our living and the rest of living systems. Where humans are empowered by their own agency and have a choice over where they pour their energy into. Energy like an elixir, growing, nourishing, and expanding... See more

Charles Eisenstein wrote in his essay Inverting the Energy Paradigm :

Many of us today are reaching our limit. The condition called burnout mirrors the depletion of fossil fuels. But the solution to burnout is not to drink more coffee, or eat more food, or take better supplements. Nor is it to keep doing what we’ve been doing, only less of it. It is

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Let’s imagine: my energy at work is extracted and used to maximize the profit or growth of a company, which maximizes the ROI of its shareholders. The river reaches its captivity at the dam. The river starts generating energy not for the ecosystems within and outside of it, but for human benefit. So, for me to continue this path I will have to... See more

And I am not concerned with money, I am concerned with the invisible nature of extractivism that separates creators from their creations. I am concerned with the way we exchange energy and the way energy moves from primary sources of abundance to places of captivity .