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The Metabolism of Love
When you tell me “I’m cold,” I understand “Hold me.”
And when I tell her, “have this, cover up”, she knows that I’m actually telling her, “I love you.”
What if we decide to keep quiet… even in silence we can hear the same melody.
— Corazon Solitario
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…I told him I was moving towards a way of living as reflected by my work that would not surrender my relationship to seeds and food and land in a way that would exploit, extract or harm those relatives, seen and unseen, that I love.
Many modern people have been so heavily indoctrinated into the capitalist system that they think its rules are like that of nature, such as gravity, it’s a given and a non-negotiable. This Capitalist realism is a response to the inability to imagine an alternative to capitalism…
We have brilliant visionary relatives who are using their bright minds to cultivate new structures and cooperatives, exploring the new face of Indigenous economics that is rooted in relationship, kinship, mutual reciprocity and the inherent abundance of this good Earth that is our Mother; blending the old Indigenous ancestral ways with new modern tools. Indigenous peoples the world over are some of the most magnificent spiritual alchemists, metabolizing new things into our culture in ways that help…
