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Roosje's avatar

Feeling very inspired by this 💚

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Dreaming Awake's avatar

Glad to hear that Roosje - we spread the magic together.

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Hayley Frances's avatar

The manifesto for urgency needs a poster x

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Alice Plants Poems's avatar

And a home - we’ve made a magazine to bend the arc of the possible towards a liveable future where we’re integrated again with the web of life — Bending The Arc magazine if you’d like to submit work, subs open 7th July.

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Dreaming Awake's avatar

Bending The Arc sounds like a great initiative. Thanks for sharing Alice!

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Hayley Frances's avatar

“Any artist who works inside the system for long enough is always going to get corrupted by it in the end.” - oh this is what I’ve just experienced and I am disillusioned by it; by the entire ‘industry’ of the arts. This is what it’s for; expression, spirit, sense making, self conviction and collective revival! I want to honour your grief in this post Rachel and express kinship in the overwhelming rage of the concurrent eruptions of collapse happening where and what feels like everywhere. x with love and light x

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Dreaming Awake's avatar

Hello Hayley, I'm sorry to hear about your experience and feelings of disillusionment. I hear you! But thank you for your generous words. The spells we weave together, I believe, have the power to transcend the web of unequal, often invisible power systems of capitalism. I'm keeping some room in my heart for the unimaginable, as Mary Oliver said. Keep up your brilliant work Hayley and love to you too xx

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Kim Roberts's avatar

Art is a spiritual practice in my book. And I agree with Helmut and Toni...we 'll need to learn to listen to the muses.

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Dreaming Awake's avatar

Yes, let's all turn to the muses...

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Leslie's avatar

My writing (just a few words at a time) is my art. Reacting to others' writing. We sustain each other by lighting up that little heart at the bottom of the post. Protesting is art, too.

Standing with a sign

Energy rippling outward

Hawks catch the updraft

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Dreaming Awake's avatar

Thank you for sharing these beautiful words, which read like a spell Leslie. Magic and art are surely what we create together and your image of the hawk powerfully captures this.

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msginlic Merrill's avatar

Beautiful!!❤️

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Dreaming Awake's avatar

thank you Merrill! Here's to more magic x

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Lāsma Poiša's avatar

We must be shamans now. The alchemists of uncertainty.

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Dreaming Awake's avatar

I'll see you in the woods with a cape and divining rod...

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