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it always jarred me a bit to see people sing of light and love and birds and nature and singing for no reason when… their life doesn’t seem to involve spending significant time with those things? but you can just do that https://t.co/0uWOxpefwp
it’s not an "activity" of "some other thing" i’m singing, i’m singing about my land, my life https://t.co/9yaPjC0GnQ
i get that feeling when @____keh tweets. she tweets about her life, because she’s walking in it i get it when i hear @relic_radiation chirps. her songs come from the ground of the life she is living on https://t.co/033wX664ol
my main “meditative” practice is spending at least 1hr a day sensorially checking in with the rhythms of local nature this looks like: walking, saying hi to the local crows, touching lots of plants, attuning to the seasonal shifts in the trees & sunlight & smell of the air https://t.co/gwQrhx1WoR
i get that feeling from Braiding Sweetgrass when she writes a story about a pecan tree, it’s because that tree is a part of her life not because it’s some other. a thing not part of her life, but looked at https://t.co/9PoxWumWBM
anyway, it’s felt odd to see some people spend their entire life around yoga or spirituality or something else, but still relate to it like a tourist https://t.co/RW901RWYT6
it’s your thing. walk in. talk of it as if you were walking in it. it can just be your thing. your home. the way you make something your home is by spending time with it. that’s how a star in the sky becomes yours
that's the thing i really appreciated about the singers and the communities of them i spent time in — they took to their new adopted lives like water. there was no pretense if we single toned every wednesday in a barn, we just did it like that's what we did. it softened me https://t.co/w5KOqAEdj3