Red Earth, Blue Sky

Sustainability translation for Auroville to home: Good lord, translation! I was thinking about this in the midst of flying halfway around the planet. The fact that I can even get halfway around our planet in one day is quite interesting; a lot of the experience in India was seeing and trying to understand how another culture and people are handling the same stuff I do concerning globalization, industrialization, and of course just living as best we can.

Observation ended up being a large part of my learning experience; observing subtle forces and surrendering to my own dependence and inability to help, acknowledging that mine is a lifestyle of destruction. This surrender to reality was a huge lesson for me- what does this mean for this place I am now? I think it was a lesson to accept the state of the world as mostly unknown, mysterious, and uncontrollable, a dynamic living thing in a constant state of flux. It means to accept or surrender that I do play a role and make a difference (try to be a good butterfly) but I do not/cannot control much of anything, nor should I. Ah, accept that I'll never really know, and yet here I am, here you are, here's all the other species and the planet, and dag nab it, we need to learn to share and not impose, destroy, usurp and otherwise ignore.

Translation at first hit me like an air conditioned marble-tiled advertisement-plastered sex-driven airport, but I found support and love where I needed it. The United States has problems, but cannot be categorically dismissed and dissed just as India or any other nation cannot be.

Who am i now? a safe space, low in hemoglobin, reliant on my physical body without understanding it, a foreigner/ velakari, community member, cow, observer, one who finds more shelter outside and in, gatekeeper, star-gazer, corpse, child/ eleven-year-old, ageless, ignorant, compassionate, able/unable to help, a quiet smile, a mile wide grin, healer, healed, entertainer, sister, pulsitilla wind flower, synchronized, permeable membrane.
Red Earth, Blue Sky
our sixth rain goodbye
time to go sit in the fire, may you ever feel it
windflower
empower
those you love
those for whom you yearn for well-being, happiness
return the Earth to health
remember a place where people leave holes in the road
around sacred stones found while paving
remember living with and respecting
geckos, ants, birds, life
remember a lifestyle with less insulation from the world
Reframe
see the opportunity
surrender to reality
do not fear death, hoka hey
live in awe of each passing moment of beauty.

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