copyright landfill
Our current awareness itself is like the map of now for our individual regenerative journeys. These stories and myths manifest like fibers that weave together as physicality. The patterns weave together like the clouds of our dreams, like the rivers our spirits flow, like the trees that whisper wisdom, like the soil that births, like the copyright landfill.
The practice of mending and repurposing are ancient tools for reflection and of practical use throughout history. Reglow is an art of repurposing used garments whilst cultivating inner radiance. The style has come full circle when we turn to embrace our authenticity, our story, and the materials that journey with us.
“The hardest thing is to believe ones self and yet there’s really nothing else” - Meade
We shine.
We cast shadows.
Shadow and light dance like ether and void.
We glow.
Each a part of the all.
The way that I experience story is a non-linear experience. It is by cultivating my relationship to the seemingly mundane that I celebrate and the story emerges.
“If there were maps of the invisible realm of the powers that are greater than human, what would those maps look like? There wouldn’t be a unified map, of course, because there is no single minded order to mythtime.” Kane 61
Our current awareness itself is like the map of now for our individual regenerative journeys. These stories and myths manifest like fibers that weave together as physicality. The patterns weave together like the clouds of our dreams, like the rivers our spirits flow, like the trees that whisper wisdom, like the soil that births, like the copyright landfill.
“Whatever space is chosen for stories, everyone who listens well help to create the story.” Mellon 9
When we listen to these stories, we have a choice in how we receive them. When I listen through my heart, semantics fall away and the present speaks.
In essence we are unified.
In story we imagine.
In song we radiate.
In dance we transform.
Kane, Sean. Wisdom of the Mythtellers. Broadview Press, 1998
“Re-creating the world with Michael Meade. ND3448” New Dimensions Radio Podcast 08/09/2019, https://player.fm/series/new-dimensions-1250062/re-creating-the-world-michael-meade-nd3448
Mellon, Nancy. Healing Storytelling. Hawthorn Press, 2019
expanding in communication
Since landfill sites are an accumulation of stagnancy in our global ecosystem, I wonder about the garbage. I wonder about the stories that are held in the womb of landfill.
I am expressing my understanding of what is true for me at this moment. I welcome dissonance is an opportunity to expand awareness.
We are our living stories. Our bodies carry the stories of our ancestors. Whether verbalized, articulated or not, we embody them. When we learn to accept them is where the transformation begins and where we may heal our pain. It is not the stories that change, but our perspective of them. How do we see ourselves in our lives? Where do we carry the emotion of hatred and fear of our own stories? Where do we carry the remembrance of love? What story are we acting out at every moment?
“Because a people co evolve with their habitat, because they walk the paths their ancestors walked, myth telling assumes that the stories already exist in nature, waiting to be overheard by humans who will listen for them… Such stories have a semi-wild existence; they are just barely domesticated and so are free to enact the patterns of the natural world… The definition directs us towards an emotional and philosophical language of co-evolution with nature, a language that allows all life, not just human life, to participate in the ecology of the earth.” Kane 33
Since landfill sites are an accumulation of stagnancy in our global ecosystem, I wonder about the garbage. I wonder about the stories that are held in the womb of landfill. I wonder how they will be through the Great Turning in micro and macro ways.
I don’t believe that outdoors are “nature” and indoors are “human made”. For when humans ARE nature, what we make is also nature (even if we name it garbage and neglect it). In my experience mythos and logos are not separated in dual forms and written text is just as much a living co creator of my reality as an object, plant, and animal.
From The Activists Tao Te Ching by William Martin:
“55. The Nature of Things
Whatever is forced into existence
will soon fade away.
What is allowed to arise
of its own inherent nature
will remain and prosper.
Therefore, when our work arises
from our own true nature,
we are flexible, yet indestructible;
adaptable, yet powerful;
able to work all day, yet not grow fatigued.”
Kane, Sean. Wisdom of the Mythtellers. Ontario, Broadview Press, 1998.
Martin, William. The Activists Tao Te Ching. Novato, New World Library, 2016.