JUNE 6, 2025 – Remember with the River Dolphins

“Thank you, my loves, for the bravery of your freedom in spaces of clear limitation. In spaces of muddy reality. Thank you for your decisions to do not what you could do, but what you must. Thank you for teaching the difference between privilege and courage. Escape and transcendence. Reaction and revolution. Your endurance inscribes an eternal alternative, carried by bottles and bottlenoses, blood and breath. Message honored. Message received.”

–Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals,” Emergent Strategy Book 2, pp. 42–43

AFFIRMATION: In this moment, I remember the Truth of who I am.

July 13, 2025 – Breathe: It’s Shark Week!

“You exist so that Divine feeling, fire, imagination and creativity may be expressed through you. The Spirit comes to you with a new and fresh creativity. You need not ask what others have done or how they have done it. Be yourself and express life as you find it. Never imitate.”

–Ernest Holmes, This Thing Called You, page 80.

AFFIRMATION: Breathing deeply, I delight in being exactly who I am.

JULY 20, 2025 – Honor Your Boundaries

“On the banks of this river, I surrender to the boundaries that land is teaching. Yes, I surrender to the demands of my dream for you and for myself. Which is love. Which is abundant rest. Which is a visionary world that looks so much like a dream, but when you close one eye, it opens. When you open up this close to the edge, land holds you and water moves through you. And what you thought was closed off to you opens up like possibility. And the danger you thought would swallow you and everyone you love instead reclarifies who you are, updates your dreams and waits to wake you with new purpose.

If I can learn to sleep it is because my dreams are yours and for you and of us. It is because my love is an ocean, but my path is a river shaped by and that will heal us if we let it.

It’s never too late or too soon to recognize we have the power to embody the qualities of harmony, love and joy. Despite our circumstances, we always have the power to change our relationship to the events in our lives.”

–Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, p. 90.

AFFIRMATION: I create and maintain enriching boundaries.

JULY 27,  2025 – Go Deep

Ernest Holmes writes that “No [human] has ever plumbed the depths of either the conscious or the subjective life. In both directions, we reach out to Infinity, and since we cannot encompass Infinity, we shall always be expanding and always enlarging our capacity to know and to experience.”

–Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind, page 31.

AFFIRMATION: I embrace the full expression of my soul.