If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
Truth without compassion is Cruelty.
Yesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill.
How do you catch a beautiful bird without killing it? By becoming the sky.
What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and poetic rationalism, Brezsny weaves a yarn crazy enough to be true and real enough to subvert the literalist virus of cynicism now immobilizing the collective mindscape.
Define yourself or be defined.
It's far too late for anything but magick, as the future is clearly up for grabs.
It fit into my scheme of things for many reasons. At the time it was true that male dancers were looked down upon, and it was true that a lot of the male dancers were effeminate. But what I was really trying to do was develop something that would be American.
Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then rewritten, then given to kings for them to take their favorite parts, then rewritten, then re-rewritten, then translated again, then given to the pope for him to approve, then rewritten, then edited again, the re-re-re-re-rewritten again. . . all based on stories that were told orally 30 to 90 years AFTER they happened. . to people who didnt know how to write. . . so. . .
As Indigenous peoples, we know there is more to the world. We know spirits exist. We know as women, because we're especially attuned to this kind of knowledge, that spirits exist and have a presence in our lives. Some of us are gifted and can communicate with the spirit world. Not everyone has that gift and can perceive the borders between the living and the dead and our society actively discourages us of exploring the knowledge of what many of us have already always known in our cultures.
For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.