“Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It’s over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don’t. There is a beauty yet in this brutal, damaged world of ours. Hidden, fierce, immense. Beauty that is uniquely ours and beauty that we have received with grace from others, enhanced, reinvented and made our own. We have to seek it out, nurture it, love it.”
~ Arundhati Roy, The Algebra of Infinite Justice
Arundhati Roy, 2010 at her Harvard “Field Notes on Democracy” talk. CC photo via Wikimedia.
I’ve been revisiting the writings and inspirations of Arundhati Roy in recent days, as I prepare for an upcoming local talk.
This is just one of many of her insights that encourages and stirs the heart-embers.
Plus, as a writer who has a love and appreciation for the craft of writing, it’s always Muse-stirring to read the beautifully written words, or a breath-stopping turn of phrase, of another inspired, skillful writer.
Jamie has long been an inspiration partner and lantern-holder for her fellow transformation leaders, change catalysts, and creative nonconformists who are living, inspiring, and (intentionally or not) leading the way in these chaotic times.
When she's not tending and stirring the Sophia's Children cauldron, she's following research trails, and serving as the Director of a Repro-Justice-oriented women's health center in her community, co-creating a safe, in-person compassionate care environment in a world that increasingly seems to lack that.
Jamie is a long-time servant of the Muse, a writer and author, an intrepid walker and feline-tender, and is passionate about the healing power and relevance of reclaiming ancestral-wisdom and healing (or at least understanding) ancestral (and other types of) trauma. She has great appreciation for dark chocolate and cooking other nourishing, delicious meals -- often plant-based -- to nourish her partner and her peeps, and otherwise doing the same day to day things we all do.
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March 19, 2017 at 6:35 pm
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