#all one

[wiirocku]

Galatians 3:28 (ESV) - There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

[sunnyguitargirl]

Oh by the way since I didn't say it yet, you should know:

I fully support all gay and trans and every variety of queer folk and every color of people and every race of people and every disabled person and every person discriminated against by age or sex or gender and every person subjugated or oppressed by class or heritage or culture and every endangered or oppressed creature on this Earth (and off it too.) Let none be left out for my lack of specific mention.

I believe and emphatically declare that every oppressed being deserves freedom, peace, and compassion. Every conscious being deserves respect and care and space to exist peacefully.

If you don't agree I'm not gonna tell you to leave, but you'd better get with the program and change your mind because even if you don't realize it yet, you're one of these people too. You're a part of us too. At some time, you have surely been disregarded by someone for something invalid, remember that time, and know this: we live free or die oppressed together, no matter what. So stand with us, for together we are stronger.

If you've ever drawn a breath on this Earth take a moment to notice the feeling, and realize that every other being feels their existence at least as potently and viscerally and profoundly as you do. Spend some time with that.

Remember it, wherever you go, whatever you do, whoever you meet. When you look in someone's eyes, hear their voice, sense their presence: notice that they are alive and here and real and realize that they are experiencing conscious beings just as you are.

Justice and freedom for all. Stand with us. Together we are freedom, together we are forever.

[innervoiceartblog]

"The psyches and souls of women have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.

In order to converse with the wild feminine, a woman must temporarily leave the world and inhabit a state of aloneness in the oldest sense of the word. Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one, meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one. It is the cure for the frazzled state so common to modern women."

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

[gramarobin]

[thingsworthsaving]

"So, here we are again, shoveling coal into the tender, or, in my son's case, pantomiming the motion in the ruins. He loves trains and doesn't care about trains anymore, ersatz wind in his toddler hair, real wind on his big-kid face as he flies through the pandemic-emptied lot. Here I am beside him, discovering, for the millionth time, the verity of joy, and how it throbs with impermanence, responsibility, and sorrow. The cord has been cut, most surely. But if I can imagine raising him, and continuing to raise myself, as those who might work on behalf of the surround–the common beneath and beyond–the already and forthcoming–if we can love all the misery and freedom of living and, as best we can, not mind dying–then my heart feels less broken, more emboldened. It feels shaped right. Morton says he wants "to awaken us from the dream that the world is about to end, because action on Earth (the real Earth) depends on it." For so long, I didn't know what he meant. I do now."

-Maggie Nelson, from On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

[breathingrainbows]

collage with acrylic paint, nat geo magazine, dr bronner bar soap package, dried lavender, hindu gods & goddesses book, embroidery thread, & a pocket guide to mushrooms on canvas

[ajkproduction]

Pilgrimage complete