Thursday, August 31, 2017

It is both



I would never say
He took my breath away
No
He made it easier to breathe
I would never say he stole my heart
No
All that he has had or still has of mine 
I freely gave
I would never say I fell for him
No
He's too careful with me and would catch me or warn me each time,
Yes protecting each other comes naturally with a love that endures, stretches out blissfully
and each expression lands gently beside the most recent one
I would never say love is the totality
Or the sum of all our parts
No
It is both a language and a certain 
Quality of silence that make more sense than anything we have ever mumbled
Or screamed till our throats hurt
Or whispered to deny we ever said it
Yes
The aspect we are willing and able to face
Hesitant to erase
Oh the face of you 
The space between our toes and fingers
The presence
That lingers

Monday, August 14, 2017

10 steps for the Peoples' Movement


First Ten Steps for the Peoples’ Movement-

Our Motto: We practice the elimination of exploitation of all kinds

Original Template for the self- defined “Community Organization” model, and the Planetary Healing Arts Enterprise


1.      Create Currency according to need not greed. A certain amount of agreed upon currency that lasts a lifetime is in place for Every human birth, with zero exceptions. The mandatory individual income is awarded to each human at the time of birth along with a birth certificate. The records of these births will be backed up into the cloud to maintain as much of a permanent record to ensure the allotted amount of mandatory lifetime income.

 2. Regarding all those who live below the poverty level, they will receive an amount to last them a lifetime, and can be resupplied if the currency was spent on any sort of help or treatment for anything at all that is hurting the person. All functions of the organizational model and the Enterprise operate with transparency, so when the grievance is reported, the harm is assessed by professionals who have undergone extensive therapeutic training, background checks and other checks and balances to be determined by an actual representative democratic process.

3.The representative democratic process will, in a new way, include the move for all candidates to abandon any raising of funds as the job they will be taking on will one of service to the highest good and therefore any possible motivation for the candidate to win in order to create wealth will be permanently obliterated. This ensures the conscious move from corruption to a commitment to serving the higher good of the organization or of the enterprise.

4. The few limitations put upon these amounts for all in need or who want the benefit of this new currency, must agree to let go ALL weapons of War. Battleships, Air Force supplies, Navy supplies, and all Military paraphernalia will be melted down or otherwise transformed into useful items that promote life, beauty, health and all manner of good and blessed things. We cannot keep peace and prepare for war. When it comes to guns used for hunting animals, the decision to vote for or against non-militarized weapons will arise when it does. As humanity evolves in the practices of peace keeping in a way that eliminates a militarized stance, we can re-visit the decisions about other weapons until there are actual options for people who wish to change how people in the United States relate to the issues related to animals.

5. The revolutionary aspect of the Peoples’ Movement maintains the stance that military pacifists are at the forefront of this movement. Our financial abundance and potential happiness as humans depends closely upon the end of WAR as we know it.

 6. The community organization and main template connect directly to the Planetary Healing Arts Enterprise.

7. The Planetary Healing Arts Enterprise is a fairly simple concept. All people in the following categories may contribute: individuals with capital or conscious organizations who work toward or offer resources for the improvement of earth and water and air clean up, professional healing arts which must be verified by a system agreed upon by standards set first by the United Nations as well as other verification processes not yet developed. They will be part of the Universal standards set for our species as a whole, including educational services which benefit humanity and include teachings about the resources of earth. All of these separate parties may instantly connect via internet services, public websites with transparency always and translated in as many languages as needed.

 8. Any person receiving this currency may have need for a specific kind of healing. There is no reason to limit the amount of currency needed for the many kinds of assistance and healing needed. The system cannot be exploited because of the checks and balances that will be set into place and they will be known about worldwide, and like all the rest of these steps and actions, translated into as many languages as needed

 9. This could be a call for massage, surgery, eyeglasses, knee braces and treatment for any ailment out there. All of this is covered by the enterprise, and it is worldwide, covering therapy, physical or emotional.

10. As a species, as self -defined humanity, we will reach an accord. We will find enormous and lasting relief in the agreement that currency is literally made up in our imaginations and then projected upon to the physical world. It follows then that, this new revolution can be a blood less one, due to the fact that the misery of poverty can finally, permanently be put to rest and make the final exit from the world we have known, into a historical foot note, nothing less, nothing more.



With gratitude, I bow to all my relations.






Sunday, August 13, 2017

no longer applies to me, thought others could relate

he wants to be friends with benefits
I say you got to work for it
what kind of love are you showing, when its affection
and attention you are owing
how will you handle this debt when you can no longer
pretend to forget
I bring truth to the table, want to make sure the whole idea
is mentally stable, running around making excuses for you
color me fed up, color me blue
no longer want this, drank so much disappointment I offered him a sip
creating a place for him to save face
all the while I fake a smile
and it won’t even matter who he turns to next to flatter
or if he will miss me when I am gone
and the fact that it is my energy he has been running on

Friday, June 16, 2017

the end of the archives for now

as I see it, I have poured a whole lot of breath into this blog

I have 2 short pieces. one is the piece I first read at Café International. the host was Ramu Aki. he was known for his colorful attire and commanding presence.

De donde eres? ------------

where does the poetry come from

reside originate begin in my body

not necessarily from my head or heart. probably

my fingers or lower back
ancient as blood as rivers of truth

running red and deep through our veins

poetry has a pulse, it is a living breathing entity

which allows me to be a vessel for its power

it is the way the ancestors speak to all of us

so listen carefully for their whispers
their laughter
their warnings

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Dear Santa Claus,

I have been a good girl this year. It's all relative though, isn't it?
We are not so different you and I. We are jolly and generous.

You are a Sagittarius, maybe? I have a Sagittarius rising.

About my gifts, perhaps a laptop would be the best way to go.
College practically requires I have one.

It has been good working with you. Your attention to this matter is appreciated.

You know where to find me.

Yours truly, Juliana

page 2

Who really needs another analysis of rape culture? I certainly do not want to write one.

Instead, looking at what people are doing to change the whole dream of this planet is the only reasonable choice moving forward. There should be a time and a place to lay out what the problems are, the severity and the intricacy of them.

There also must be a time to look at what is already happening that could change the whole picture.

Staying in a place of rage, dissecting the sickness that got us here, this is not an option for me. I know others who have seen similar situations, felt similar feelings. We move on from the rage because we would self destruct or destroy others if we did not, and that is a fact. Anger teaches us, but rage is a level of anger that consumes our minds and bodies. I learned, I could not stay in that place of pain without at some point causing more.

part 2

weakness versus strength in survivors

we hear "you are so strong" I know this is intended as encouragement and there is a massive shortage of things to say that help. ask the survivor, can I say....? Their mood might swing all around the place.

Make it safe for their moods to do that.

there are endless possibilities that say who we are. too many form beliefs despite a glaring lack of evidence.

many are liminal, stuck in limbo, or bardo, purgatory, you know the story.

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Thursday, June 15, 2017

From 2014

There is no true beginning that came from nothing------------

Do I start with the fact that the mistakes of the grown ups around are mostly what led to my introduction to rape culture? I entered into it naïve and unarmed instead of prepared and somewhat aware as others would have been.

Do I start with the stories themselves? I could give example after example of young men who did not fit some stereotypical rapist profile, using my openness, vulnerability, trust and kindness as weapons against me? Does this mean I am foolish and they are born predators? Or does it mean they are so disconnected from how to engage in ethical sexual encounters, that they were not taught or trained to need or even want consent? Let us set the record straight right now, consensual sex is redundant. There is sex, implying consent in its definition and there is rape. A misconception is that it is not rape unless a weapon is present?

My guess is that most of rape victims do not want to give anyone the satisfaction of seeing them succumb so fully to the twisted dysfunction of harming or killing the rapist. Our society is sickly voyeuristic and systematically desensitized from these cases.

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