8.5.2022 9:29AM
My experience of the garden this morning was a frenetic one. So much disarray to be sorted through after last evening’s rain; yet Lemon was so agitated that my task was not one that was going to be undertaken with any ease and grace.
As I gathered produce, tended the feeders and up righted tipped planters she pulled and strained against her very generous lead yelping and panting; a half crazed, fully obsessed, bunny-lusted Lemon she was.
I moved her lead from stake to stake around the gardens hoping that if she were presented with enough differing angles (perspectives) she would come to the recognition that there was nothing tangible where she believed it to be.
Yet the more information she had to work with the greater her frenzy became.
I finally had enough. I stopped everything I had been doing, took a deep breath to clear my own irritation with her agitation and said,
“Lemon, just let it go now Darlin’, just let it all go. It is already gone. You are just chasing a Ghost now”.
Lemon stilled and became and quiet. Something inside of me responded in like manner.
For a few moments we were as such, she and I, calculating our next steps in consideration of the awareness we now had.
And then the first drops of a new day’s rain touched our cheeks and signaled a lesson completed.
Thank you Mother; I understand and am grateful.
An empowered individual never feels the need to “identify” another (ie. using racial slurs toward an individual or larger entity). The need to place labels upon another stems from a lack of knowing oneself.
Systemic racism is rooted in the ideology that enemies are existent outside of oneself. Racism is born of a belief that one is limited in some manner or form by the actions, or non-actions, of another individual, group or society.
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