In the Oyparaploo Way of Conjuring
We hear a theme of softness.
We think about how Indigenous elder women can be shining examples next movement and next Creation.
Protection and Safety. Minneapolis this month of January, extending outward.
Mothering Soil. Offering a safe place. Every time we imagine the style of your words ... It's everything.
Give the colonial Guns to the indigenous Grandmothers. Give the federal agents to the Upstanding Take No Murdering Mess Artists ... including Creative Writers and nauseated by today's conservative art boots on the ground Journalists.
Beautiful Belonging and Being Brought In. Even if someone is experiencing missteps. People from everywhere are sending Hearts for Mutual Aid. Some of us are products of the last Civil Rights Movement and want to lead with Peace and Love. Some of our warmest works are in the form melting ice.
We're grateful for creative people around the country, who are thinking about the families. Holding them close in mind. Sing with the full body everything that is in our communities. Born under a North Star with good character shown from examples of our parents who lived close to earth soil.
If it was up to our federal administration our nation would erase eliminate trans children and strong grandmothers who lead with their tender voice, from the top of those concrete steps, in front of the Lincoln Memorial.