08/14/2020
Invite this beautiful soul medicine from Toko-pa Turner to seep into your cells.
"In these cataclysmic times, living in what Michael Meade calls the “slow apocalypse,” despair can be dangerously seductive. Our lives may feel inadequate to the terrible momentum of the times, but it is in those moments that we must remember the difference between despair and grief.
While despair traps us in the bog of despondency, grief carries us into life. Grief calls us into a deeper engagement with those things that we love. And even as we are losing them, grief wants to exalt their beauty.
If we let grief move us into expression, it will sing the blood into our songs, colour the vividness into our paintings, and slip the poetry between our words.
Rumi says, "All medicine wants is pain to cure." And so we must cry out in our weakness, our ineptitude, our beautiful inadequacy and make of it an invitation that medicine might reach through and towards us."
by Toko-pa Turner (toko-pa.com)
