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The plants can tell us her story; we need to learn to listen.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Money then is loss, not gain.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
John G. Neihardt • Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition
While animistic cultures live in a reciprocity with what author and Mayan shaman Martín Prechtel calls the “holy in nature,” we have become a culture infatuated with literality and rationalism. Divorced from myth and the symbolic life, our personal stories cease to have meaning in a larger collective momentum. Also atrophying in this separation, is
... See moreToko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
I never did find out what happened to him the night before the morning he went out and blew his trumpet instead of his bugle, blew and blew a song that grew out of him in extended notes that called for the rising of us not out of our beds but out of our bodies. I can’t explain it well, you never can with music. I can say the notes were long and bui
... See moreTommy Orange • Wandering Stars
the literary poem Martin Fierro
Brian Winter • Long After Midnight at the Niño Bien: A Yanquis Missteps in Argentina
The shaman is torn to pieces by these figures and reassembled (an ego death and spiritual rebirth sequence).
Gloria Anzaldua • Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise)
the artist-activist’s struggles;
Gloria Anzaldua • Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise)
“Poetry is not some abstracted art. It’s how human beings speak when they’re trying to create language against which there are no defenses. This has to be heard and it has to be heard in the spirit in which it is being conveyed, and the language has to be invitational to that particular person.”
— David Whyte