Tenderly approaching the deep grief of cultural amnesia and colonial…
Tenderly approaching the deep grief of cultural amnesia and colonial wounds ... We witnesses without claiming to fully understand ... leaving space for us to bring our own relationship to ancestral loss and forgotten songs ... When we do rituals there is the odd feeling of familiarity ... Even though we may have never done anything like this before ... there's a recognition somehow that this is the resonance ... this is the cadence that enabled our ancestors to survive and create a rich spiritual heritage ... And so part of our grief is to feel that much of that heritage has been forgotten and we need to Grieve into it over and over again ... The reparations ... the repair ... he has to go through the threshold of sorrow in recognizing what we persistently encounter ... which is the emptiness of ... white or Caucasian people ... people of Europe ... the Middle East ... North Africa ... These societies and traditions ... We have essentially emptied out ... Lost what would have allowed us to feel connected to one another ... to place and land ... Approximately 500 years ago ... we came here empty and to the cultures that were here by emptying them
