tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48038276646869441272024-02-19T00:46:08.517-08:00As the Garden Growslexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-59123137078616324562009-08-04T04:39:00.000-07:002009-08-04T04:39:26.971-07:00Pan-African News Wire: The Meaning of Black August 2008--An Essay by Kiilu Nyasha<a href="http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2008/07/meaning-of-black-august-2008-essay-by.html">Pan-African News Wire: The Meaning of Black August 2008--An Essay by Kiilu Nyasha</a>MaMa Niahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618831071796871993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-40671656241268378892009-06-23T17:02:00.000-07:002009-06-23T17:05:34.811-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBatC8vX1vlbmuYdOXPEdOeDO7doxl9qYj_lDmEEmrpm7ERgZJ9eLxT9zVuNzwpC_X76qL8T4CP8WSuEKDOrVZBPXuR9Xw0fH8m7IACNfbUpwrObm7qEmPC62pLpeKYb52sXzOlyZperwB/s1600-h/DSCF3082.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGg8YQSA-7UfiaSZVPaRiE_eaY0xKMJQBI9bYT3xObthhN7xLZEdj-XUHCYCTPFHog4zD1YJrasmkmod-j2SjLma8rdBG3-J-lxy353eJYU4yrIoWkSTtW-PUBoONTWtURqUlujyFCwB-o/s320/DSCF3070.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350678448006274162" /></a>MaMa Niahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618831071796871993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-91557435664528329762009-06-23T16:55:00.000-07:002009-06-23T16:57:36.488-07:00MaMa Niahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618831071796871993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-58276593706222269772009-06-23T16:47:00.000-07:002009-06-23T16:51:57.128-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRBEP_fTeaNxkGrOioFsx9GjuRG6MpZQwROF6T3XYLu70Km3AgjYoOeS5NQmmruhdjB95YcfEiAwlgLBcEu_vxm5O968GXhEPNPSB946r47XWeG4697z1G09HU-BeLEJU9Ce4LSBlT2lEH/s1600-h/DSCF3068.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifWmReIk8271_ERhywf0hQQwTgPwe6VY6iRZEqjFo_wlaah6-NFo-RF8KDIoc30mBwX_p9W1ZG8Mdu92YCjfUvUHbM_NQw4UrCzI_mOXo616pT3CAAFaBeuBC5yMnbMBWI8thgOwJC8Paa/s320/3118_89330798734_663573734_2377381_1322534_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350674816447267282" /></a>MaMa Niahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618831071796871993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-22742980724235114212009-02-10T05:30:00.000-08:002009-02-10T06:12:42.166-08:00In Your HandsTowards growth....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHaWLB-3T4fngrIB97g2Lh_FXztGC5wAyAbifYSijLecavmUaOsodUQF1VbKxqVc4GVLsdZBElVvculs2mVS8ijzFUOlgkS_Ubm2cSJv6Te3AFWzlN_zip0N58M9QkNRMumzQ77P7HjApD/s1600-h/(you).jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 189px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHaWLB-3T4fngrIB97g2Lh_FXztGC5wAyAbifYSijLecavmUaOsodUQF1VbKxqVc4GVLsdZBElVvculs2mVS8ijzFUOlgkS_Ubm2cSJv6Te3AFWzlN_zip0N58M9QkNRMumzQ77P7HjApD/s320/(you).jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301166458174482434" border="0" /></a><br />Introducing <a href="http://motherourselves.wordpress.com">In Your Hands: A Letter Receiving Project</a><br /><br /><p>Since love is not scarce, our ancestors bathe us in it every moment that we dare to receive.</p> <p>I have learned that there are sources of nurturing that are older than us and swifter than our bodies. I am noticing that those who are no longer here in physical form are teachers in the wind, showing us how we must relate to each other, if we want to survive longer than our bodies and longer than a system that denies us.</p> <p>I have been writing urgent letters to my ancestors since before I knew they were watching and on the cusp of this new year they whispered a suggestion to me. “How about for this new year, as a gift to yourself, you receive some letters from us, the spirits of women that love you from eternity?”</p> <p>As ever, my answer was yes. These daily letters from the most beloved of my known and chosen ancestors on behalf of all of the ancestors who have sent us love with their lives and dreams without us knowing came at exactly the right time. When I was afraid to trust myself, I was not afriad to trust their guidance for me. I re-learned a shifting methodology of loving myself firstly as their vessel and secondly as their recipient</p><p>And my ancestors are socialist, so of course they would ask me to share these intimate insights and gifts with you. Of course they would want me to bring their messages to your waiting ears, but more than that I want to share this practice and encourage that you engage it for yourself.</p> <p>I don’t know what ancestors speak to you or why and when they do, but I have been asked to ask you to listen, lovingly for what the universe wants you to know.</p> <p>Can you join me? Think of the people who have influenced you, while they were living or through their written, or retold legacies. Just think about them and let your mind relax, let their energy surround and fill you. Create quiet times in your days in case they have something to say.</p> <p>Here is a letter that I received from my grandmother:<br /></p><div class="entry"><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="snap_preview"><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-13" title="willgramsmile" src="http://motherourselves.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/willgramsmile.jpg?w=327&h=382" alt="willgramsmile" height="382" width="327" /><br /></p><p>Dear Lexi,</p> <p>I don’t know what to say. I am honored to be the path between you and all of these great women. I am humbled by their company. There are so many ways to live in the world, so many ways to be remembered.</p> <p>I love the ways you remember me. The ways you hold and use my everyday things in ways I never would have used them. The way you designed your whole wardrobe around that one necklace to keep me close to your heart.</p> <p>I am watching all the time. I am learning. I am proud of your intentions and the company you keep, spiritual and in the world.</p> <p>I’m glad that you have learned form me to make an impact, to care deeply, to move accordingly. I am glad you have learned to invent and inspire. I am glad that you study me and that my life and my leaving become words that you share with the other grandchildren and with strangers. Thank you for being so proud of me, so curious about me always. Thank you for listening to the deep puppet voices in the bathtub, for wearing the costumes, for filling the dollhouse. I wanted a range of world for you where you could be yourself, and that self could be expansive.</p> <p>I know, you know, I always wanted to move beyond wherever I was and I do that. I still do that through you. Continue to feel at home with and responsible to the communities you adopt, because life happens in community. But also know that your spirit, intimate with mine, is reaching not only to see, but to create something exciting, something new, something old.</p> <p>Cherish your own relationship to beauty. Cherish your own space and independence. Grow your affinity with nature, and as raindrops let go and become the sea, I am here.</p> <p>Your Grandmother,</p> <p>Lydia</p> </div> </div><p><br /></p><p>I encourage you to add your insights here on the <a href="http://motherourselves.wordpress.com/your-letters/">“your letters”</a> page if your feel that what you have received could provide healing and wisdom for the rest of us. I encourage you keep your writings for yourself if you feel that they should remain private. The messages of our living dead are sacred. They transcend the norms of intellectual property, and they should be treasured by your best impulse.</p> <p>My intention here is to share with you an abiding sustaining faith in presence of those who have gone before and their participation in our everyday.</p> <p>I invite your observance or participation with love.</p> <p>Always,</p> <p>alexis</p>lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-27942310281035369762009-02-04T10:49:00.000-08:002009-02-04T11:54:13.218-08:00Audre Lorde on gardening in winter<pre style="font-family: georgia;">A few weekends ago I was looking for some guidance/wisdom<b></b> about joy & sorrow, love in the face of what's happening in Gaza<b></b> and the world right now. And I happened to open <span style="font-style: italic;">The Black<b></b> Unicorn</span> to this page, to this poem that I'd never read before. <b></b>Look...<b></b><br />Love, noah<p></p><br /><br />Walking Our Boundaries<b></b><br />Audre Lorde<p></p><br /><br />This first bright day has broken<br />the back of winter.<br />We rise from war<br />to walk across the earth<br />around our house<br />both stunned that sun can shine so brightly<br />after all our pain<br />Cautiously we inspect our joint holding.<br />A part of last year’s garden still stands<br />bracken<br />one tough missed okra pod clings to the vine<br />a parody of fruit cold-hard and swollen<br />underfoot<br />one rotting shingle<br />is becoming loam.<p></p><br /><br />I take your hand beside the compost heap<br />glad to be alive and still<br />with you<br />we talk of ordinary articles<br />with relief<br />while we peer upward<br />each half-afraid<br />there will be no tight buds started<br />on our ancient apple tree<br />so badly damaged by last winter’s storm<br />knowing<br />it does not pay to cherish symbols<br />when the substance<br />lies so close at hand<br />waiting to be held<br />your hand<br />falls off the apple bark<br />like casual fire<br />along my back<br />my shoulders are dead leaves<br />waiting to be burned<br />to life.<p></p><br /><br />The sun is watery warm<br />our voices<br />seem too loud for this small yard<br />too tentative for women<br />so in love<br />the siding has come loose in spots<br />our footsteps hold this place<br />together<br />as our place<br />our joint decisions make the possible<br />whole.<br />I do not know when<br />we shall laugh again<br />but next week<br />we will spade up another plot<br />for this spring’s seeding.<br /><br /></pre>ubuntugrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726546600901958872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-34999600912951081522009-01-17T20:51:00.000-08:002009-01-17T21:12:44.475-08:00ubuntu-grows wishes for the new year<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy4OsaiCgxbz5XmwsaorBbtZo2e1rYDrAc6vOM5d-vxnHLG0xm4ouMFSFiMxZkpE1GA0V4H4JoyTqtw7KLIk9ur-xK-IPIzq5JnyOfSQUuLOIlt379v65zWpm3vS-hTLBo0qrYwI5gTIk/s1600-h/centered.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy4OsaiCgxbz5XmwsaorBbtZo2e1rYDrAc6vOM5d-vxnHLG0xm4ouMFSFiMxZkpE1GA0V4H4JoyTqtw7KLIk9ur-xK-IPIzq5JnyOfSQUuLOIlt379v65zWpm3vS-hTLBo0qrYwI5gTIk/s400/centered.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292496686370891218" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">ubuntu grew <a href="http://ubuntugrows.blogspot.com/2009/01/ubuntu-grows-intentions-for-new-year.html">intentions</a> for the new year, and we also grew...<br />"messages / wishes / prayers / thoughts for the new year"<br />and placed the seeds on our alter at the day of healing...<br /><br />here is what we wrote...<br /><br />music<br />opening up to....!!!!!!<br />deep breaths, peace, hope: more than survival<br />to breathe in boldness and push love into the air<br />to practice self-love with mindfulness and patience<br />joy<br />impeccable self care<br />abundance enough for all / love love love...<br />to love / to be light / to be trusting!!! / to create in a spirit of collaboration + community + cohabitation<br />unbridled LOVE (and patience)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">tons of healing, transformative, healthy love</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">*the image is from the "trauma stewardship" session that manju led</span></span><br /><br /><br /></div>yashnamayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17544047053494253719noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-75240528148083579552009-01-05T12:48:00.000-08:002009-01-14T06:48:45.461-08:00ubuntu-grows intentions for the new year<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1I9TmjsC5iBVIiOyA3r8GVGkeoyGeIOBXd108T34EjF08FYaTPPxdzwVOX3CyyW9_qL0UDSVbj7T9Kj8aMFmxHIE3d2mT2YLyYSNj_ZWPaGPhIUR81TpC5XONkLfgQNPQkgzcE1TW1rc/s1600-h/hand+holding+sprouting+seed+%281%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1I9TmjsC5iBVIiOyA3r8GVGkeoyGeIOBXd108T34EjF08FYaTPPxdzwVOX3CyyW9_qL0UDSVbj7T9Kj8aMFmxHIE3d2mT2YLyYSNj_ZWPaGPhIUR81TpC5XONkLfgQNPQkgzcE1TW1rc/s200/hand+holding+sprouting+seed+%281%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287924009286040738" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">"let us not take life for granted... </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">always remembering how truly precious your life is." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">- </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">emily</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"> c</span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">On January 1, 2009 <a href="http://iambecauseweare.wordpress.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">ubuntu</span></a> held its second day of healing.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">On this day we had various workshops: </div><div style="text-align: center;">Yoga/Meditation<br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Intentions and Determinations<br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;">Trauma Stewardship<br /></div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Trust<br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;">Potluck dinner<br /></div></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;">Guided meditation<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Letting Go<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Dance/Body Love<br /></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Intentions and Determinations healing session lead to the question... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">"how do we support each other through the year in keeping our intentions and determinations?" </span></div><div><br /></div><div>It was suggested that we post to the blog a list of our intentions, and then find an intentions buddy to help keep each other accountable. </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Here are the intentions: planted seeds that we hope to grow through the year: </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">AJ</span> </span></div><div>- to be thoughtful and intentional for myself and those I care about </div><div>- continue to be more GREEN </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Alba</span></div><div>- to use every drop of potential I possess to the end of having the most extraordinary life possible </div><div>- to listen and act on my clarity </div><div>- to be authentic, whole and intentional </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Amiris</span></span></div><div>- love for myself, others, of our environment which is the earth and cosmos</div><div>- destroy oppression and exploitation</div><div>- to create love and freedom for myself and others and of our environment which is the earth and the cosmos </div><div>- to do my work well </div><div>- determined to be free together with all </div><div>- bridge divided worlds and people, bring them together in a diverse collage of collective collaboration while never losing sight of the horizon light of freedom which is our humanity </div><div>- find a love remedy to heal the oppressors of their oppression<br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Beth </span><br /></div><div>- play regularly</div><div>- practice my art as prayer </div><div>- create home as a place of welcoming </div><div>- take care of self</div><div>- pay attention </div><div>- trust my passion</div><div>- transform my world like we do </div><div>- to draw frequently<br /></div><div>- to live actively </div><div>- being a being of light </div><div>- learn new meaning of accountability </div><div>- to act, to attend, to witness </div><div>- to love, to heal</div><div>- to know home </div><div>- to speak<br /><br /></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Bre</span></span></div><div>- I want to focus more on art. For art comes in many forms. It is drawing, writing, music and cooking! It is creativity and it is creation. Art was my first love and I put it aside to focus on schooling. Now I realize that I should have never put it aside. My goal is to draw more, write more, do more, and cook for myself and friends, family and community! </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Emily </span></div><div>- to be healthy </div><div>- to be a person of conviction </div><div>- to be intentional and loving with my words and actions </div><div>- to have and nourish faith </div><div>- to create a stable, healthy, happy and harmonious family</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Jenn</span></div><div>- CREATIVE FORCE </div><div>- trust that I am loved and create trust </div><div>- feel love as abundant as creative process</div><div>- sing, be art, write music</div><div>- create confidence</div><div>- follow my path creatively </div><div>- create healing space</div><div>- learn from the earth's creative force </div><div>- be a mentor</div><div>- recognize the beauty and creativity every day </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Kriti</span></span></div><div>1. feet on the ground </div><div>2. give into <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">right</span> now. goal-less. nowhere better to be. </div><div>3. willingness <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">always</span> to learn new things. </div><div>4. write it. share it. now. </div><div>5. sharpness clarity precision</div><div>6. do whatever needs to be done, simply, straight forwardly, without hesitation. </div><div>7. no fear. no hesitation. no doubt. you are perfect and invincible. you are surrounded by the same. </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Lex</span> </span></div><div>- youth led <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">spirithouse</span> </div><div>- Durham in love with ourselves through progressive cooperation and synergy </div><div>- optional and resonant historical names for the divinity in my life</div><div>- learning to mother ourselves</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Lex</span> and Julia</span></div><div>- the most loving sustaining days and nights ever shared...</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Lynne</span></div><div>- to be brave in all I do</div><div>- to spend more time with loved friends</div><div>- to truly live to the fullest outside my work </div><div>- love </div><div>- to finish fitting into my skin </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Manju</span></span> </div><div>- no deprecation, self or otherwise</div><div>- write a love letter daily </div><div>- practice impeccable self care. begin with simple steps. begin with my body. begin TODAY. </div><div>- be intentional about moving forward in healing from my abuse and violence history, be patient with this process. </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Mikel </span></div><div>- I am hereby resolved to opening my heart and my awareness to enable my choosing, moving, and connecting with each and every moment in a creative, spontaneous, and Truthful way</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Noah </span></div><div>- Say yes! to my life with my whole heart </div><div>- focus</div><div>- say all the things i wish I'd said/ that i need to say </div><div>- act from my heart, my spirit and my deeply held values-knowledge </div><div>- speak like i know</div><div>- don't wait for perfection</div><div>- open up and give my trust out like extra seedlings or seashells</div><div>- tell everyone how much i love them </div><div>- say blessings out loud </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Sendolo</span></span></div><div>- Decisive </div><div>- Strengthen my character </div><div>- Strategic, accountable, integrated, organizing </div><div>- Call my Mama, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Gramma</span> + <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">JJ</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Polska</span> more often </div><div>- Complete a first draft of my portfolio </div><div>- Make base building and intellectual work the center of my work<br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Serena</span></div><div>1. to create and sustain a sense of purpose in my work </div><div>2. to build a useful and consistent rhythm into my days, nights, weeks, moon cycles, and seasons</div><div>3. to develop an intentional, sustainable spiritual practice- in particular I want to listen to my ancestors more and better</div></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Yashna</span> </span></div><div>1. Practice Impeccable Self Care </div><div>2. To build myself with these blocks: </div><div>strength, clarity, trusting, boldness, empowered, loving, courage, confident, full+whole, truth telling, creative expression </div><div>3. to hold a torch of hope and light for myself and self-love and to actively pursue creating this in my life </div><div>4. to hold a torch of hope and light for my relationship/partnership with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">mikel</span> and to actively pursue creating this in my life. healthy, passionate, connected, sustaining, long-lasting love </div><div>5. to rewire myself out of old beliefs into empowering beliefs that support my growth </div><div>6. to change my default of fear and negativity to positivity, hope and joy </div><div><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">and to close: </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">"i want to blink my eyes and radiate love like the stars." - noah </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div>ubuntugrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726546600901958872noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-10241997452867167402008-12-08T12:34:00.000-08:002008-12-09T09:50:47.698-08:00Reflections: Birthing a Garden / Midwife to Justice<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZqnykItOOc0gdRS3kDSWLKznKsy6EKBuVIOsHOexTwqdeQCprUQpmENzedJN284rZObo6AZoqZKASrSXfSiLZgiQ59ihlxZYl8nYFMWV-FgtdKLQsZODGf_pkDlm8jlT2f9qnwwTsPFk/s1600-h/DSCF0299.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZqnykItOOc0gdRS3kDSWLKznKsy6EKBuVIOsHOexTwqdeQCprUQpmENzedJN284rZObo6AZoqZKASrSXfSiLZgiQ59ihlxZYl8nYFMWV-FgtdKLQsZODGf_pkDlm8jlT2f9qnwwTsPFk/s320/DSCF0299.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277849256585607362" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><div align="left">Last Saturday we, ubuntu-grows, had an amazing workday and mini-teach where we got together and weeded, mulched, winterized, and learned glorious things about our garden.<br /><br />We used old coffee bags for a "winter blanket" mulch cover for our beautiful greens...collards, kale, red kale, etc. We cut slits or "x's" into the bags, and then carefully threaded the plants through the openings. As we eased the plants through the openings I remembered the few times that I have been able to witness a human birth. Each time is a miracle. Each time a head reaches out of the comfort of the warmth within their mother and out into the world is truly a miracle.<br /><br />As we eased the plants out from under the coffee bags, I felt a joyous gratitude for the birth of each of those heads of greens. I laughed with delight each time a plant was threaded through, as if I hadn't seen one come through just a few moments before.<br /><br />Miracles.<br /><br />As I mentioned the birth anology to my garden family, Beth mentioned that then we must be the midwives of this garden. Helping to birth and deliver these miracles. </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">--<br /><br />This is my second week at my new job with the <a href="http://www.nfwm.org/">National Farm Worker Ministry</a>. It has already been an eye opening experience, a new way to look at the world and our food through the labor of farm workers lives.<br /><br />Today at work I came across a passage that echoes these thoughts on birth and food from the land. I suggest you use it before eating your next meal.<br /><br />"(Name of your divine spirit), bless the farmworker, and move our hearts to remember and bless them well. The farm worker <strong>shares in your power as midwife to creation</strong>. Help us to serve as midwife to the living wage they deserve for their labor. Help us to serve as midwife to the cause of just treatment in the fields." Amen. Ameen. Blessed Be. And so it is.</div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center">So as we do our work, and we assist in the birth of our plants, our food, as co-creaters with the Divine, we are also called to assist in the birth of justice in our communities. </div><br /><br /><br />What birth have you assited today?<br /><br /><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">posted by ymp</span></em><br /></div>ubuntugrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726546600901958872noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-44013272984916893482008-08-23T18:34:00.000-07:002008-08-23T18:44:33.593-07:00happy with the habanero<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0BVXtG6ODnIjGyd88yxHrH5fUnnINdK6WbbmOe9Z_IvvN8a-WzgCmYSeO50U-rsIzdTc5OC8HMZqxnLHZHJ-iDId9OGKMCLVAK6yAY3ufK7lnYpmJWxRgXQKDXw6PykwU_JyqzQ2ACM0/s1600-h/MyPicture_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0BVXtG6ODnIjGyd88yxHrH5fUnnINdK6WbbmOe9Z_IvvN8a-WzgCmYSeO50U-rsIzdTc5OC8HMZqxnLHZHJ-iDId9OGKMCLVAK6yAY3ufK7lnYpmJWxRgXQKDXw6PykwU_JyqzQ2ACM0/s320/MyPicture_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237891969565888530" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy49G-8Z0Fd2JHjTHCirTejymbuK6t6yV6TH35-jzxSb5znVJyTXVQVHnw3lA0xMLbyxyDjz7anWk9-E9AnARnS7EHIbr9byWlO-nqZ-e-Dx07fWeh3xnamIf4AnQzlejoQ_P7TGGDHB0/s1600-h/MyPicture.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 363px; height: 273px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy49G-8Z0Fd2JHjTHCirTejymbuK6t6yV6TH35-jzxSb5znVJyTXVQVHnw3lA0xMLbyxyDjz7anWk9-E9AnARnS7EHIbr9byWlO-nqZ-e-Dx07fWeh3xnamIf4AnQzlejoQ_P7TGGDHB0/s320/MyPicture.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237891833460548546" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0w-y5-PhmOaomesvJK8QyRchp804XDDkoSJV-ZiVOYVeBKnZhI8vfguLxGAZSrGT0pSuCJtEbHSgJeXcglUc5JqmySHQiXJvnXQH0yPA729ifjlEMtAmrOS18_G58WRlBzXNqUSDM5Ug/s1600-h/MyPicture_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0w-y5-PhmOaomesvJK8QyRchp804XDDkoSJV-ZiVOYVeBKnZhI8vfguLxGAZSrGT0pSuCJtEbHSgJeXcglUc5JqmySHQiXJvnXQH0yPA729ifjlEMtAmrOS18_G58WRlBzXNqUSDM5Ug/s320/MyPicture_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237892066379614434" border="0" /></a>ubuntugrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726546600901958872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-81723934059151135112008-08-16T10:35:00.000-07:002008-08-16T10:43:45.899-07:00amend the jus soli<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.reuserinc.com/images/nitroDust.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.reuserinc.com/images/nitroDust.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This is an exert from our latest meeting, notes taken by Kriti:<br /><br /><b>"<span></span>We need to amend the soil, re-establish the planting grid,</b> plant seeds and starts, put up PVC hoops, and put up plants that need vining.<span> </span>Kriti will bring aluminum foil and garden twine.<span> </span>Noah will bring shovels.<span> </span><b>As for amendments,</b> Mikel will look into getting five 5-gallon samples of compost from the City of Durham.<span> </span>Beth and Yashna will both look into getting chicken manure.<span> </span>Mikel will ask Kia about getting the starts.<span> </span>Kriti and Noah will figure out what seeds to bring.<span> </span>Noah will look into saving eggplant seeds."<br /><br />At our last meeting when Kriti said "we need to amend the soil". I had no idea what she was talking about, which is one reason I am participating here, to learn about gardening, about creating life. So, I asked Kriti, do <i>what </i>to the soil? Amend the soil, meaning to renew, replenish, add on to. Wow! That is beautiful! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_conditioner">Wikipedia</a> says that a "soil amendment is a material added to the soil to improve plant growth and health."<br /><br />For some reason I am finding similarities in my naturalization process, the recent and horrible lash against undocumented (and often times documented) immigrants and my experience of gardening.<br /><br />I am in process of becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States. I am excited about this, and take this process very seriously. I am in the last stage and now just waiting to hear back for final approval and hopefully be able to take my oath soon. I have felt growing attachment to the US as my home and where I find pride, safety, security and honor. I have lived here for 26 of my 29 years, this is my home, it always has been (even without a piece of paper to prove it), and I hope that it always will be (with that piece of paper to prove it).<br /><br />To become naturalized originally came from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli">"jus soli"</a> which means to become "right of the soil."<br /><br />During this naturalization process I had a chance to brush up on my civics, and study for the <a href="http://usgovinfo.about.com/blinstst.htm#22">naturalization test</a>, and studied the Amendments again after a long time. There are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution">27 Amendments</a> to the Constitution. Amendments are changes made to something that needs to be altered. To make amends means to make up for something that was typically incorrect or wrong.<br /><br />Every day in the the last few weeks I have cried. I have cried every day because I have heard, read or seen stories of people, yes people, not "aliens", not "illegals", but people, who have had there whole lives (and that of their families) shift in a second because of paper, skin color, religion, assumed nationality, or someone else's misguided hate or ignorance. This has made me unbearably sad, with tears flowing easily. If only I had a rain barrel for these tears to feed our garden with.<br /><br />So, taken from our meeting notes, I would like to share these notes to my potentially new naturalized home, of the US, <b>"we need to amend the soil..." we need to change the groundwork here y'all.</b> We need to take out the old shit and bring in some fertile soil that encourages growth, not breaks life.<br /><br />I stated earlier that the US, as my home, is where I find safety and security. I have had moments where I do not feel safe after the last few weeks where I have seen a blatant disregard to the Bill Rights, Amendments numbers 1, 4-8 and most importantly 9, unenumerated rights, or basic fundamental rights. I am calling upon the first amendment to be able to say that I am saddened by this tearing up of our garden called Durham, called NC, called USA, with blind eyes.<br /><br />We need to make amends to the people we have hurt in this process, who are just trying to help our garden, our home, become more fruitful.<br /><br />"We need to amend the soil and reestablish the planting grid..."<br /><br />What does that look like for you?<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(post by: ym)</span></span>ubuntugrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726546600901958872noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-29864224002263986102008-06-30T14:46:00.000-07:002008-06-30T14:55:26.910-07:00youth<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjufxnvyWtJMwsTEYjB56_vPmIvdtUQgfOuSMaaE2EFC1cQOoiOhu-TveYeOSklaieyW_uszM3qTjOSSKfTNKsMnzMnoCNRF_jmxrjKc7pVPFIceMUamkAxfl7AJVhA-AO0k78aBUVsfdE8/s1600-h/betterzucchiniflower.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjufxnvyWtJMwsTEYjB56_vPmIvdtUQgfOuSMaaE2EFC1cQOoiOhu-TveYeOSklaieyW_uszM3qTjOSSKfTNKsMnzMnoCNRF_jmxrjKc7pVPFIceMUamkAxfl7AJVhA-AO0k78aBUVsfdE8/s320/betterzucchiniflower.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217795521770676338" border="0" /></a><br />This is what our Zucchini flower looks like at 6am.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8FAemaY-rxc6UrPUUH7sQEgp5tGnKql-HvQHCzWwkzUypvBQ8OTlp6LG9vL75gUBue6-4G2msXNVOfFKEYc8M7To7BP9KCzkVJWL7aPhyphenhyphenjO_FhD0cxakRHPe0dKGnNNmVXqLccRUuCPcj/s1600-h/bright+green+tomatos.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8FAemaY-rxc6UrPUUH7sQEgp5tGnKql-HvQHCzWwkzUypvBQ8OTlp6LG9vL75gUBue6-4G2msXNVOfFKEYc8M7To7BP9KCzkVJWL7aPhyphenhyphenjO_FhD0cxakRHPe0dKGnNNmVXqLccRUuCPcj/s320/bright+green+tomatos.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217795533915176434" border="0" /></a>Happy green tomatoes.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JxZ31GM3cJqXhKAFGA0iuka_wdSg5ULJoi762wWIxKM7w2IjqgYjzdKLL-tfVmHcMSUVovcbaldXwLFxMty8zN6HaKNjl_L2cG-xAQBDR9FSf_wYl-VAWDUH_UVvk09j6WVfG5imAUKF/s1600-h/firstripetomato.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JxZ31GM3cJqXhKAFGA0iuka_wdSg5ULJoi762wWIxKM7w2IjqgYjzdKLL-tfVmHcMSUVovcbaldXwLFxMty8zN6HaKNjl_L2cG-xAQBDR9FSf_wYl-VAWDUH_UVvk09j6WVfG5imAUKF/s320/firstripetomato.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217795549912713586" border="0" /></a>First ripe tomato!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXxEfXaGgpzVfax_oio30j5Xsssgc8dKO9wywmLMRA8UUi0JwW7xSmYmixUDrYCnRf_5wzw8WGtpqrH2FwGnCh6e0MgrSLVCocHEFOxkIRh21QfIYlY1-sD7_LaM-NwfIG6xRZy7ZgFn59/s1600-h/garden.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXxEfXaGgpzVfax_oio30j5Xsssgc8dKO9wywmLMRA8UUi0JwW7xSmYmixUDrYCnRf_5wzw8WGtpqrH2FwGnCh6e0MgrSLVCocHEFOxkIRh21QfIYlY1-sD7_LaM-NwfIG6xRZy7ZgFn59/s320/garden.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217795564249011170" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG2Ed5Jyzf1a2BXOU51Mh8tHaZx_WG1EC-bccI9FrBQamVL9TOcLoChyphenhyphendorfsCoySsY0nyq7TVIou6AhoAumD-dvlKpiWbGAjiqhDKTltkwitmJylrIzcFIfyGHZMp882OSTrxrSlMZPjN/s1600-h/wethappytomatoe.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG2Ed5Jyzf1a2BXOU51Mh8tHaZx_WG1EC-bccI9FrBQamVL9TOcLoChyphenhyphendorfsCoySsY0nyq7TVIou6AhoAumD-dvlKpiWbGAjiqhDKTltkwitmJylrIzcFIfyGHZMp882OSTrxrSlMZPjN/s320/wethappytomatoe.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217795586016701154" border="0" /></a>lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-20649056886518865152008-06-30T14:23:00.000-07:002008-06-30T14:46:41.510-07:00birthThese are long overdue....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0BqFtpRdSa_Tu1jWOpDOPOhyhC7KlkFFHcphx9M81JbNCUxmu6CuXAaQQ9aiiCk45WqhIYej-ldttYa8PLk6m1MjCBMPwC4ik_TSWhIUJ4qy3P43mJmSlRzixFe6bsG7Nwj_-VWQLjvcD/s1600-h/firstbabytomato.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0BqFtpRdSa_Tu1jWOpDOPOhyhC7KlkFFHcphx9M81JbNCUxmu6CuXAaQQ9aiiCk45WqhIYej-ldttYa8PLk6m1MjCBMPwC4ik_TSWhIUJ4qy3P43mJmSlRzixFe6bsG7Nwj_-VWQLjvcD/s320/firstbabytomato.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217793405902394242" border="0" /></a><br />First Baby Tomato!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVM2m_RS-5ggdnoJ90ZOwOedEy4SuKVdYR5yT9p17uCdf0zlIl2H7HLfjsXRheorm9SKii4_WXNly8gANQ4Z54dO7Mg4-hXFpzcMqM144S6huKBXRBnTPhGOQZAc8C8DyNadsm1NbMHGo/s1600-h/mulching.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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If not, try <a href ="http://picasaweb.google.com/beth.bruch/MakingRainBarrelsForTheGarden?authkey=FjlJPoF0LTQ">here</a>.<br> much love</p><br /><br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fbeth.bruch%2Falbumid%2F5209978255702703073%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss%26authkey%3DFjlJPoF0LTQ" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="192" width="288"></embed>Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03627136619617829139noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-34632469477523691902008-05-13T17:52:00.000-07:002008-05-13T17:53:08.606-07:00Watering daysSo today was my day for watering. I almost panicked around 4 because I thought it was Wednesday and that I'd missed my time. Didn't want to disappoint anybody. When I got to the house the sun was still shining on the garden. I stood for a minute wishing and hoping that the carrot seeds hadn't all washed away in that heavy rain we'd gotten the days before. I decided right then to be gentle. I set the hose to a trickle imagining how slow the process would be if I'd used a watering can with the little holes in it. This is gonna take some time, wish I had my ipod. I started on the bed with the carrots cause thats what I had planted. Got down real close and let the water gently saturate the soil turning dusty brown into rich dark muddy earth. Looking like fertile ground I could swear I saw sprouts. I got about 4 sections done and I realized just how long this was going to take. So I turned the water up. It didn't feel quite right so I turned it down again and practiced patience. Daydreaming bout good food and loving community. Contemplating Lex's question today, about what we would grow in our Gardens- Peace, patience and self-determination, growing between thick bushes of love. <br />It took me over an hour, and a few mosquito bites, to water the garden. I appreciate the breath and stillness. I need to forget my ipod more often.MaMa Niahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618831071796871993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-39346322897311274572008-05-13T06:38:00.000-07:002008-05-13T06:49:28.962-07:00Why Gardens are Important<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flowersociety.com/images/flowers/sunflowers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.flowersociety.com/images/flowers/sunflowers.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />or because this made me cry.<br /><br /><br />Vita's Garden<br />by K Shalini<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thedoorpost.com/?film=5687a4a5d7688f30a41c08565a23d5b2">http://www.thedoorpost.com/?film=5687a4a5d7688f30a41c08565a23d5b2</a><br /><br />Shalini also has another film about the importance of water:<br />A Drop of Life<a href="http://www.adropoflife.tv/"><br />http://www.adropoflife.tv/</a>lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803827664686944127.post-67744222966639909012008-05-11T12:32:00.001-07:002008-05-11T12:40:55.780-07:00and grows<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhihUREcZC3FCwt47MKSZfmORplHnG2Pc1y1Nq1ec704tcj7t8YvslJqidmFBEXr9qnMkBoAL_LUHLjKQSQiW6kAX6ztHheO9ZAN5gEfmOeE12DZnwP5MNyTQFxUibBSdoxNhENazc5iTvi/s1600-h/IMG_1275.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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