expanding in communication

This is process and orientation writing. As I seek refinement and growth I am expressing my understanding of what is true for me at this moment. I welcome dissonance is an opportunity to expand awareness.

We are our living stories. Our bodies carry the stories of our ancestors. Whether verbalized, articulated or not, we embody them. When we learn to accept them is where the transformation begins and where we may heal our pain. It is not the stories that change, but our perspective of them. How do we see ourselves in our lives? Where do we carry the emotion of hatred and fear of our own stories? Where do we carry the remembrance of love? What story are we acting out at every moment?

“Because a people co evolve with their habitat, because they walk the paths their ancestors walked, myth telling assumes that the stories already exist in nature, waiting to be overheard by humans who will listen for them… Such stories have a semi-wild existence; they are just barely domesticated and so are free to enact the patterns of the natural world… The definition directs us towards an emotional and philosophical language of co-evolution with nature, a language that allows all life, not just human life, to participate in the ecology of the earth.” Kane 33

Since landfill sites are an accumulation of stagnancy in our global ecosystem, I wonder about the garbage. I wonder about the stories that are held in the womb of landfill. I wonder how they will be through the Great Turning in micro and macro ways.

I don’t believe that outdoors are “nature” and indoors are “human made”. For when humans ARE nature, what we make is also nature (even if we name it garbage and neglect it). In my experience mythos and logos are not separated in dual forms and written text is just as much a living co creator of my reality as an object, plant, and animal. 

From The Activists Tao Te Ching by William Martin:

“55. The Nature of Things

Whatever is forced into existence

will soon fade away.

What is allowed to arise

of its own inherent nature

will remain and prosper.

Therefore, when our work arises

from our own true nature,

we are flexible, yet indestructible;

adaptable, yet powerful;

able to work all day, yet not grow fatigued.”

Kane, Sean. Wisdom of the Mythtellers. Ontario, Broadview Press, 1998.

Martin, William. The Activists Tao Te Ching. Novato, New World Library, 2016.