An experiment in power and receptivity fueled by experience, expression, thinking, doing, making and keeping a record of one person’s labor in order to come into her own time of weaving her own story (a slow dance with a scorpion). This is it. This is who I am. Take me as I am.

Monday, November 11, 2013

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My newest song:

I keep wanting to post things that I have worked on for school but then I get busy or think that the stuff I write about there is too far out to bring to internet-land.  This is an exception:



Lyrics:

Deep in my heart I know how to be free
but my lineage is strewn with traps, I see.
How can we heal our complex histories?
It’s time to decolonize my concepts of authority.

(chorus)
I realize I need to re-learn how to listen,
cause that skill didn’t come with the privilege I was given;
and I want to know about solidarity,
so please have mercy; teach me.

How can I be the ally you need me to be?
Together we can deconstruct this mechanistic hegemony.
I know there’s got to be more to our reality,
with open hearts we can collaborate peacefully.

((repeat chorus))

It’s time to weave patience into this family tree.
Healing is strength; in time we all will see.
Action from love; compassionate symphony.
Don’t turn away; feel the pain and set it free.

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