Truer than ever before, much of the world was asleep in their screens during 2020. Television, cell phones, and computers offered connections during the worst of the world-wide pandemic, but connections sans touch. Such connections seem void of what I’d call true encounter. An incarnated connection is more real for it’s in the flesh and is sustained over time by meeting, greeting, touching or holding intimate space for one another. Emerging from the last year of sleep and screens, 2021 is sparking a new consciousness. We are realizing something critical to the survival of Earth and the human species. We need to talk with one another. When we take time & engage we learn how to listen again. Listening teaches how to build and sustain by giving, taking, and willingly offering disclosure and feedback. This happens when we “talk story,” a phrase I learned from the Hawaiians. Talking story is no small thing. It’s the way movements start, and the way the medicine wheel ride started. Talking story, as indigenous women spoke about the missing and murdered sisters, mothers, aunts, cousins, daughters, and grandmothers, they realized the tragedy was three-fold. First, that it happens at all. Second that it happens at an alarming rate among indigenous peoples more than anywhere else; and third, that nobody was talking about it. These crimes continue to break and destroy the bonds of family and community everywhere but especially on indigenous lands. The Medicine Wheel Ride was formed for awareness, justice, and change. We were honored to be a part of it this weekend on the Medicine Wheel Ride to San Diego. It will take place again on Aug. 8 in Sturgis, S Dakota. #ridingformmiw#mmiwawareness#medicinewheelride#talkstory#mmiwriders https://www.instagram.com/p/COdIpctDLcu/?igshid=w1b3kzi3e9p2
