mother earth speaks

from the earth scene in luminous

As Onome, playing Mother Earth, stepped out from the foggy fissure within the cave, she opened her mouth and heart and the words poured forward through song. While creating LUMINOUS we pondered... if the Earth could speak directly to us, what might she say? Here is our rendition.

Child, you have all you need. Please, just give your gratitude, your joy, your tears, your song, your fullest presence, your truth, your uniqueness. For that is all I ever ask for anyway. And for you to celebrate the time you have…with me.

Dear ones, please sit now with all of your relatives and hear me now. Hear Me Now. As you sit on the ground, listen to the sound of the wisdom of Me, of We.

I live through the rocks. I live through the soil. I live through the trees. I live through the skies. I live through the sound in your heart. And bones. And sinew. And flesh.

What do you take without giving?

What do you not know about your own sacredness?

How do you not know that your bodies are sacred?

Listen to the wisdom of your body’s intelligence, your soul’s wisdom. Your heart’s wisdom. Your life’s wisdom.

Love is the language I speak. Love is the language I sing. Love is the language you are designed to understand.

I speak through the trees. I speak through the leaves of every tree. I speak through the stars in the sky.

I am the Stars. I am the Sky. I am the Ground. I am the Earth. As are you. Every particle of you, every wave of you.

We are One. Every blade of every grass. Every sand of every sea. Every leaf of every tree. Every speck of dust.

There is sacredness. There is reciprocity. There is giving and receiving as one. We are all one. We belong to each other. We speak the language of Love. We sing the language of Love. I sing the language of Love.

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Martin Dunkley, co-founder of Kingston’s Seasoned Gives, recently lost his beloved mother Dorothy Murray (aka, Mama Blossom) to a stroke. He shared with us how the loss is shifting his daily experience and allowing him to see through new eyes.

“I’mnotgoingtolie;it’sbeentough. The person that I was, passed awaywithmymom.It’sincredible that only a mother has the power to give birth twice! She was able to see me come into this world and watch my eyes open. I was able to watch her eyes close, and, with that experience, I am learning and discovering myself all over again like a child would. My accent, my vocabulary, my awareness…the ironyisthatIdon’tbelieveitcould have happened without my mother’sinterjectionofherself.

When a woman gives birth, it’s the ultimate sacrifice. I have heard the pain has been compared to the equivalent of every bone breaking in the human body at once. Humanity wouldn’t be here without that sacrifice. Another activist, scientist—another human must be born of that pain. I am not diminishing fathers, but I feel it is only through the pain of losing a mom