Respect to the Earth Mother and Sun, overseer of life and tender of the beauty that sustains us. Watcher and nurturer of all, from the smallest seed to the greatest tree. Respect to the Little Water Beetle, the crafter of the world, finder of the first earth. He who dove to retrieve what would become our world. Respect to the Free Father, evoker of revelry and herald of joy. Destroyer of shame and arbiter of autonomy, hedonic lord of abundance. Respect to the spirits to come and go, the ones who inhabit and cultivate the world around us, ancestors and ghosts, remnants of what was and what will be, and all the wisdom and memory they possess.









