Song of the Week

Ngum Nya Ko. Read while listening to help you open a little. This song condemns the forcible exercise of power and arbitrary legislation. 

Updates

How are you feeling about yourself right now? What are you seeding? The last week was full of soaking in excellence from Olivia’s mosaic unveiling. See more below. Mosaics remind me of the rewards of slow, methodical, and mindful work. The Buddha said you have to make the present moment into the most wonderful moment of your life. If you can become fully present you can touch base with the most wonderful things— that your body is metabolizing, moving ancient minerals about your body in tiny floating vehicles suspended in fluids made from billions of years of learning which is then embodied and passed down, the list of amazing things happening just in your own body over the course of ten seconds is endless.

When we are in the present moment, we also can touch base with the hardest things in our lives that are also true— that we feel alone, numb, scared, again the list can go on. That the incredibly mesmerizing beauty and the real roughness of being alive happen simultaneously, makes sense. Paying attention and pendulating to each of them in good time, slowly, and sequentially is what I’m feeling entitled to and needing right now. Our true home must be sought in the here and the now, regardless of it’s flavor and I hope you are able to do this today, in fact right now, by touching in with what is true for you, and how that informs what you build for yourself and others tomorrow.

Seeding The Stars Event at Hosmer Library

Ya’ll this event was so sweet. Please get your booty over to Hosmer Library and check out the mosaic by Olivia Levins Holden and assisted/mentored by Juliette Perine Myers. There are lupines to represent the police abolition movement, milkweed flowers, morning glories, sumac, ghost flowers, worms (two to be exact), moons, neurons, dirt, and nods to the extraordinary black history, organizing and presence of the black and native community in Central Neighborhood. Did you know the Hosmer Library area was considered the Black Wall Street at one time? There was once a 90% black homeownership rate in the area. One speaker from CANDO shared, if that that level of homeownership in the black community was possible then, it’s possible now. This mosaic is a visual representation of a much larger community narrative, and I hope you can take time to soak in its wonderfulness.

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Easy link to schedule with me online for somatic experiencing informed therapy/coaching, OT, bodywork, DBT lessons, sensory evaluations, you know the things. I’m open to referrals and taking on new folks. Spread the word!

Community Events and Resources

50 Boxes of Dirt: Oanh Vu is one of my favorite artists of all time! Sounds like a date to me. Check out this show and support your local rad asians.

Drag Story Hour: RSVP. Pillsbury House + Theatre Performance dates

• Episode 1: February 22, 2025

• Episode 2: April 26, 2025

• Episode 3: May 31, 2025

Candlelight walks: Second to last weekend of candlelight walks. If you haven’t figured it out, candlelight walks are one of my favorite things to do. Glacial Lakes State Park two and a half hours away from Minneapolis, Big Bog State Park five hours away, and Maplewood State Park three hours and fifteen minutes away. The last walk is on 3/15 and it’s a six hours drive in Zippel Bay State Park.

Original Sins with Dr. Eve L. Ewing

by the Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown. She talks about solidarity and the difference between education as liberation and school.

Thanks for READING! xoxo Eiko