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| We Don't Know What's to Come & We Celebrate Anyway (photo: Sabrina Lugo) |
As I've already written here, RadSab - a new, sweet friend who reminds me a bit of a best friend I made as a freshman in college and who re-discovered her gift for music in the Prosperity Hive - loves to talk about visiting the Hive ("your dojo," she calls it) and how we "make honey" within its nurturing, yellow walls. Honey is a primal liquid and a food substance that never goes bad - like LOVE. Love is a funny thing. I (and we) write and talk about it a lot. Yet, there is no way to "know" what it is. It just is - like Bees just Buzz. They aren't forcing their ways upon the flowers. They are simply doing what they were put here to do.
What they do has provided humankind with richness for over 30,000 years. PROSPERITY has been equated with the Honeybee for millennium. Yet, PROSPERITY is different from abundance. PROSPERITY is a Balance of taking just what we need and leaving the rest for others or for the natural cycles of life and death to take their course. PROSPERITY isn't a talking point. It's a real way of Bee-ing in the world, and it requires motion!
It also requires a palpable change in our value system - it means that we have and consume less while we make and celebrate more! It's a simple shift in thinking and do-ing that I hedge my bets on - because EVERYONE WANTS IT!
We want it because at the Root of Sustainability lies Relationship. Our relationship to and with ourselves, first and foremost.
Me? I have to spend a lot of my time singing, dancing, painting, writing, reading, reflecting, talking, sharing, hugging, in community, playing & more, just to feel somewhat healthy. (Otherwise, my Spirit grows withered & parched.)
I also need to do this in relationship with the Earth - running and jumping from her rocks to her streams, diving in her ocean, soaring in her skies, observing her bounty, learning from her cycles. And, I need to do this in relationship with others. You know how that looks - we're playmates for one another along this great journey called life and we are also mirrors for each other. We want to KNOW LOVE and TOUCH GOD, so we reach out. Yes, it is really quite this simple. Let's just do what we were put here to do.
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| Shiny, Happy People DANCING (photo: D. Lint) |
