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Why Can’t We Care for Our Neighbors?

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An agency with the County obtained a grant to supply water to unhoused people over the summer. The grant is likely running out in a couple of weeks unless additional funding has been secured. The distribution is handled by enlisting community groups to each collect up to 10 cases of water per week and bring it to people on the streets. I’ve been bringing water to three communities in West Oakland. People are very thankful for the water, but often hungry and ask  hopefully if I have food. Sometimes I do, but often I don’t. I’ve met people who are… read more

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Winding Path

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After my assault, the first time I felt connected to myself again was making a Pomo style basket in a workshop with Corinne Pearce (https://corinepearce.com/). It’s notable to me that these crafts – cordage, basketweaving, all crafts to make something to carry and connect – also begin with something turning, or spinning asymmetrically to make symmetry. These processes also helped this out of balance rape survivor return to my center. Recently, I was spending time at a skillshare gathering hosted by Steph Rue (https://www.stephrue.com/fieldnotes/cordage-gathering), where she and friend Tanya Lieberman shared methods of spinning cordage from tule fiber in the… read more

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4. Love Creates

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If not resistance, then what? We are not forced to live between binaries: fight or flight, resistance or passivity. People often frame situations as this or that, yes or no, either you share my views and are in my group, or you are immoral, insane, or stupid. Many accept a dualistic worldview as the way life is. But love is by nature creative. We are creative beings who can imagine, name, grow, nurture, tend, and shape something new. Your choices are not between acceptance and resistance. You have a third way, and a fourth and fifth and sixth and seventh…… read more