"I welcome the wise to teach...I am gifted. I am all of this."
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
intentions
In case anyone is yet unaware (which would be surprising since I’ve shared this in every way short of hiring a plane to write it in the sky), for the past few weeks I’ve been reading Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by a favorite woman/human/being of mine, Gloria Steinem. In her preface, she describes writing the first draft of her book, then having to face the realization that due to her own lack of self-esteem she had left her self, her voice, out of her writing. “I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know." She goes on to mention coming across a book from her college years in which she had scribbled: “Most writers write to say something about other people-- and it doesn’t last. Good writers write to find out about themselves-- and it lasts forever.”
I underlined these passages a few weeks ago when this blog was still in the womb. Fundamentally, for me, this blog is about writing what we need to know and finding out about our selves along the way. It’s about excavating our honesty, our selves, our voices, our power, our truth, our energy... which have all been systematically and intentionally buried. (This applies to all of us, but us women especially, and women marginalized by racism, heterosexism, capitalism, ageism, and ableism even more so.)
I pray that what we (all) bring to this blog/to this life will bring us closer to our selves and to the people, the communities, the worlds, the divine that nourish and sustain us.
I underlined these passages a few weeks ago when this blog was still in the womb. Fundamentally, for me, this blog is about writing what we need to know and finding out about our selves along the way. It’s about excavating our honesty, our selves, our voices, our power, our truth, our energy... which have all been systematically and intentionally buried. (This applies to all of us, but us women especially, and women marginalized by racism, heterosexism, capitalism, ageism, and ableism even more so.)
I pray that what we (all) bring to this blog/to this life will bring us closer to our selves and to the people, the communities, the worlds, the divine that nourish and sustain us.
divinity//humanity
"Beloved of God and of your truest deepest self, the self that is revealed when tears wash off the makeup and grime. The self that is revealed when dealing with your anger blows through all the calcification in your soul's pipes. The self that is reflected in the love of your very best friends' eyes. The self that is revealed in divine feminine energy, your own, Bette Midler's, Hillary Clinton's, Tina Fey's, Michelle Obama's, Mary Oliver's. I mean, you can see that they are divine, right? Well, you are, too.
I absolutely promise." (anne lamott)
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