Words From Fire Dog
We are part fire, and part dream. We are the physical mirroring of Miaheyyun, the Total Universe, upon this earth, our Mother. We are here to experience. We are a movement of hand within millions of seasons, a wink of touching within millions and millions of sun fires. And we speak with the Mirroring of the Sun. The wind is the spirit of these things. The force of the natural things of this world are brought together within the whirlwind.
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Fire Dog, Cheyenne
The Revolution which created the nation of Haiti was inspired by the divine decree of the warrior love goddess known as Ezili Dantò who danced in the head of the great Haitian priestess, Cecile Fatiman, on that famous Haitian night in 1791, on a red hilltop, at a forest thicket in Haiti called Bwa Kayiman.
Led by the powerful warrior spirit of Ezili Dantò, Cecile Fatiman crowned the African warrior Boukman with her royal red Petwo scepter, ushering in the Haitian war which forever slashed the chains of European slavery in Haiti to create Africa’s sacred trust, Manman Ayiti - the first Black nation in the Western Hemisphere.
Ezili Dantò is the symbol of the irreducible essence of that ancient Black mother, mother of all the races, who holds Haiti’s umbilical chord back to Africa, back to Anba Dlo*. Calling on her essence, breath, vision and cosmic power brought forth Haiti’s release from 300-hundred years of brutal European enslavement.
Ezili Dantò is the spiritual mother of Haiti and the preeminent cosmic symbol of Black independence, unity, self-determination, justice, equality and freedom.
Rare view,1948 by Heinrich Heidersberger [also]
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.
In those days, though, the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed.
—Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via weelittleactress)
Annie Mae Pictou Aquash
The below list was originally published by the New York World in 1895.
It’s not known whether the author(s) were male or female, but that doesn’t make it any less ridiculous.
For those who get nostalgic for that 1890s golden era of cycling, it’s important to realize it wasn’t golden for…
where she thought it would be different
this place is mud and boy cum. i arch my back
and show a kind of way
in in the end it’s a going away song. i shrug it off try to care
waters lilies in the fountain on rue royale
the cutlass buried in the bush
beer tabs into a chain i tried to crawl…