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Conflict – as an energy between and within bodies - I believe,
can be a chance to grow…without tension there would be no art or revolution
(creativity as imaginative objection to normalcy), no gardens (“but where else
than the grocery would we get our food!”), no asking of questions, no gravity,
no seasons.
Disagreement should not close doors – it should pull
us closer. Discomfort cannot continue to hold some in denial while some are
held in prisons – it can, though, be used to re-member our inter-connectedness
to all life, and dismantle what is keeping us separate.
How much of conflict avoidance is rooted in a fear of
change and not knowing, and how much of this is rooted in the fear of death?
How we treat ourselves is mirrored in how we treat each other and how we treat
our mother the Earth.
To love is to pour corn syrup into the gas tanks of
excavators. To love is to call in our comrades and commit to changing learned
patterns of harm. To love is to let parts of us die and trust that death is just
a beginning - a Spring. To love is to plant seeds, and to listen.
Loving is to pay attention.
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