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Why Kinship Matters

Why Kinship Matters

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kinship matter?

We are remembering our relationship with Mother Earth, with all life. 

Remembering…

we humans are just one of the > 1.5 million animals who live intimately entangled with plants, fungi, microbes, water, sun, moon, stars


we are Earth

we are we

not i

No one is an individual. This is a concept.

No one is an individual. This is a concept.

No one is an individual. This is a concept.

We recognize the sacredness of all life and their wisdom of living and evolving on our shared planet for billions of years before our human ancestors arrived, and our co-evolution with them for millions more.

We recognize the sacredness of all life and their wisdom of living and evolving on our shared planet for billions of years before our human ancestors arrived, and our co-evolution with them for millions more.

They are our teachers as we remember to listen.

They are our teachers as we remember to listen.

They are our teachers as we remember to listen.

For those of us raised with euro-christian colonial mind this is a radical shift.

Tiokasin Ghosthorse says, “a people, a society, a system cannot possibly wake up the same language that put them to sleep in the first place unless it’s prepared to forego freedom that it has taken from others” and Audre Lorde, “for the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house”, and Einstein, “we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”.

We are un-learning and recovering our intuition to wake up our hearts and change our minds with Earth, rather than outsourcing our hearts and minds to others.

How?

we pay attention to Earth

we listen to the voices of Earth and act accordingly

we listen to the voices of Indigenous Peoples and act accordingly

we recognize all life is sacred

we ask for permission and wait for consent

we honor and thank Earth for the life she gives us

we feel pain when she is disrespected

we speak up and often

we trust our intuition, instincts, our inner sensing and knowing

As we listen to voices that are not only our own, to Earth herself, to Indigenous voices that have always been and still are speaking Earth, we are better informed, better able to uphold our responsibilities to Mother Earth, our more-than-human kin, and each other.

This takes practice and patience. As imperfect beings we'll make mistakes and default to prior conditioning. The more we do this the more we will remember our kinship and interconnectedness with all of life. The memory is right here in each of our cells.

Now is the time.

From a place of kinship, we will be better informed and have greater courage to act rightly for Mother Earth.

May the Land be free. May all people be free. May all beings be free.


And it is so.