The Cypher

Defined: To believe with all our heart in our power, our relationships, our ancestral wisdoms, and our liberation. ” i don’t pay attention to theworld ending.it has ended for me many timesand began again in the morning.” – Nayyirah Waheed, Salt For those of us who may have been traumatized by organized religion, the word […]

Defined: To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Invitation All that you touch You Change   All that you Change Changes you.   The only lasting truth Is Change.   God is Change. – Octavia E. Butler

Defined: To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to affirm our community’s health, dignity, and humanity. We are significantly powerful and powerfully insignificant. Where did you lose yourself? It often happens in childhood.   Think about this: when a baby is born, we say “awwww” at every little

Defined: To build and maintain our own farms, gardens, clinics, and cooperatives to access collective abundance. “Give us food and it will be gone tomorrow. Give us land and the tools to work it and we will feed ourselves forever.” – Fannie Lou Hamer, founder of Freedom Farm Collective What is an economy? An economy

Defined: To build and maintain our community together and make our sibling’s problems our problems and to solve them together. Invitation You are worthy, beloved. Without having to do anything else, know that you are worthy. Because you  are. Worthy Of joy Of abundance Of compassion  Of being seen Worthy Of being heard Of care

Defined: To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves. We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond. – Gwendolyn Brooks The principle of self-determination has been made to mean one’s propensity to persevere or the ability to assert one’s will over a

Defined: To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. Men anpil chay pa lou. Many hands make the load lighter. – Kreyol Proverb Invitation Is your load heavy, my dear? I know.     It was not meant for you to carry alone, beloved.   Can you find the permission

wont you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and a woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come