Song of the Week

Listen to this song as you read to help open you up. “While one is alive, one must love as much as possible.” Mientras uno está vivo, Uno debe amar lo más que pueda

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Sometimes the feelings of bigness and growth are so big in Minneapolis it feels so so overwhelming. Glimpses of divinity are stunning and being normalized. They are everywhere these days. Then there is grief that looms large, too large for one human body of water to hold, and it is also present.

There are marks of tragedy all around us, yes. Then there is love stretching, leaving stretch marks over these same wounds. I see cubed broken glass from someone’s car window. Smashed out where someone was pulled from inside, taken to Whipple. A few blocks down the road, a sign hastily scribbled which says, “my neighbor was kidnapped here”. Adults in neon vests protect kids at Green Central school and every week I receive countless flyers of people offering their everything— people mobilizing that have surpassed my wildest dreams of what collective consciousness can look like. Every telephone pole up and down Cedar Ave for miles has a ICE out sign, despite ICE also ripping them off daily. Thank you to all the artists. Amidst all of this we are still trying to hold the line. This glorious line that is so essential and of course ICE is always pushing. Beyond that line is a birthright many of us have been taught is for sale, an illusion, or an impossibility. What makes me feel powerful within this, bigger than the actual outline of my body, is the intactness of the human spirit around holding this line, of saying no, you can’t take this away from us. It’s ours. I know you are also amazed, exhausted, and motivated.

My hope for you this week is to orient to each of things one at a time and slowly.

• Feel amazed, notice the shape of it in your body, where does it live? What images arise when you remember being amazed this week?

• Notice you are exhausted. What does this exhaustion need right now? How can we honor it and be kind to it?

• Motivated, where and who does this point you to? One at a time.

Speaking of motivation, I spun this series of workshops together with beloveds of mine, Kay Cohen and Aziz Bisanz. Please register ahead of time, the first event is next week Monday. We are not advertising this on social media, but feel free to share with trustworthy friends via VETTED signal groups, forward this email, or text individually to people. To sign up, click here, or scan the QR code, or take a screen shot of the QR code, save to your photos, then press and hold the QR code in your photos. Register for all three, or just one, whatever works for you. Spots are limited to 30 people. Sending so much love to you all.

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xoxo Eiko