Are you feeling that complete shift, a change in trajectory? A friend who is an academic, whom I utterly respect, floored me when she jokingly said she didn’t understand the world anymore. I share that same sense of grief, the loss of relating and the loss of footing. 

The limitations of my imagination impact my vision for the future. See, as a community-centered free thinker, soul talk creative conjurer and grassroots activist (and don’t forget the general lot of the caste of black indigenous woman)… certain values and visionary practice were my beacon. Folks would say that we deep-feeling-artist-birthing-mother-woman folk are “born before our time”. Constructively, an ability to envision what is coming extends from the practice of the spiritual nature of creativity. You gain insight, a clear direction (at times expressed as artistic narrative) that is purposeful, with integrity and in alignment with a higher source of belief system. 

You can’t think your way into this. You have to know it through your heart, your feeling thoughts. This is the “other knowing” I talked about many times in my life work, as a method, working with community, the representations in my visual art and poetically expressed in my prose. I have no hold on what the future will be like for my, Inshallah, great grand children. And further, every system I came to understand in the material world is now passe. Systems governing knowledge sourcing, thinking process, empowerment, social justice, emotional connection, technology are now beyond me. 

So it comes forth, this other and takes form in the creation and design of what is needed for our future. I had a very strong backbone in this. I connected, like many others, to fantastic ideas of a future with intuition, process and connection as the new tenet of high art. I projected. Now, things are accelerating exponentially too fast, the technology is opening advancements where there is no accountability, democracy, love or creativity. This is the disharmony. This is where our creative energy is needed.

Yet, I feel the call of a beautiful call of due diligence for creatives (all people as co-creators) to live in their truth and bring forth the life work that is their special gift. 

We are in a time that calls for great bravery and courage to step INTO who we truly are, no two snowflakes the same, but all are the same simultaneously: oneness.  And this isn’t going to take years of growth, getting to know yourself, releasing ego, resolving karma, discipline in a practice, etc. For some, this will be instantaneous, as swift as a sword or the lighting of a flame. 

We will embody who we are, and also take inspired creative action, a compassionate firm force, grounded in honor and gratitude for the special offering each person on this earth has to give. 

While I am unnerved that I can not project what things will look like in 50 years, I connect with the love, the higher love, that will prevail. And in this state of awareness (of what I initially reacted in fear of not knowing), I feel the great expansion, alignment and toning for great cosmic miracles, divine love and creation. It’s time to get busy and do this work. We are rising! 

Amandla! (Creative Power: to be free)