First of the Last Days

[gritaloquetusojoscallan]

[stephiramona]

Winter

[sparksire]

1. Chasing the Sun

2. You Are the Moon

3. Yesterday

4. Silver Springs

[unconditionedconsciousness]

Author John Roger wrote, “We are only born once into life, but in life we are re-born many times.” He was describing the many “mini-deaths” we experience on our journey through life. We die to old ways of being to be reborn in our power. We die to old beliefs to be reborn in the truth. We die to habits of need, dependency and control to be reborn in reliance on Spirit.

Iyanla Vanzant (via unconditionedconsciousness)

[sparksire]

"Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck." - Dennis Lehane

The truth is that when I first saw this I immediately thought "I know someone who needs to see this”....irony, no? because really, I needed it.

It’s hard to do real empathy.

[thinkmexican]

The Indigenous Strike Back 

Members of ANCIE, a predecessor of the EZLN, parade the toppled statue of Spaniard Diego de Mazariegos through the streets of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, on October 12, 1992.

Source: El Sur Piensa

[valunplugged-deactivated2019060]

[jeanpolfus]

Sunset over the Mackenzie River and the edge of the Mackenzie mountains. Tulit’a, Northwest Territories, Canada.

[petapeta]

[hunkules]

Come my child, before the humans return

[sparksire]

[sparksire]

“The sea’s wine red / This is the end of beauty

The doves have died / The lovers have lied”

I can remember the time when I laid down and loved

Surrounded in a garden of fragile flowers

They shimmered as I breathed on them

And played fiery shapes before my eyes

And I remember as the garden burned

I lay in the ashes and saw the pale pink of morning sky

Afterward, I left, and turned the key

Who will open it behind me?

[owls-n-elderberries]

Royal, black and blue by *Nishe on Flickr.

[thinkmexican]

How Mexicans Became Catholics

Also the reason why most of us carry a Spanish surname: colonization. And to be clear, colonization was never a peaceful “meeting of two worlds” but an extremely violent and traumatic experience endured by our ancestors.

Adding insult to injury, Pope Francis is to canonize Spanish missionary Junipero Serra as a “tribute to Hispanic Americans.” But somehow he’s is celebrated as the “radical Pope”? We’re not buying it, and neither should you.

(Image source unknown, but credit to whomever made it!) 

[hiadammarshall]

Adam Marshall - Not Alone

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[sparksire]

[jessxsnow]

Detail of #Refugees on boats crossing the border, full #painting for @culturestrike coming soon. 🌊 “You have to understand - no one puts their children in boats unless water is safer than land.” - Warsan Shire✨ #migration #immigration #watercolor #art #illustration

[sparksire]

reminder of things I want to write about on my blog:

a veganism post

a post on el parque de la memoria

a post on gran chaco?

a post on meditation, connection to your parents’ heritage, living directly and intently

a post on the project of building a transformed worldview for the left