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The Thatch and the Spark: Reclaiming Kuumba within Kujichagulia

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The Thatch and the Spark: Reclaiming Kuumba within Kujichagulia https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-thatch-and-the-spark--72513557 "The rain falls on every roof, but it stays longest on the one that is well thatched." Pull up a chair on the porch, family. Let’s sit with that ancestral medicine for a minute. Right now, we are standing firmly on a day of Kuumba (Creativity) , positioned directly in the middle of a week of Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) , all while navigating the larger cycle of Ujima (Collective Work) . That is a potent, heavy alignment. It is an ancestral algorithm designed to remind you exactly who you are before the world told you who you had to be. Look at our collective journey as Black people in America. We have never lacked Kuumba . We took the scraps left at the back of the house and turned them into soul food. We took a language meant to chain us and bent it into blues, jazz, hip-hop, and gospel. Our creativity is a global currency that the entire ...
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Wisdom from the mouth of babes

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I sat down to watch the movie "Inception", as the movie approached the end my son came down and began watching and asking questions.  Here is a script of our conversation: Cleve: "why are they floating in the movie?" Ha2: "gravity is messed up because in one dream they are in a free fall and it is effecting the second dream they are in." Cleve: "oh they are having more than one dream at the same time?" Ha2: " yep that is exactly what is happening." Cleve: " well why is one dream moving so slow?" Ha2: "time is different at each level of dreaming.  According to the movie on the first level of dreaming every minute of real time is equal to 1 hour of dream time. On the next level of dreaming 1 minute of our time is equal to a week, and on the third level it moves to years." I  prepared myself for a birage of question I thought this would bring from him, and already was preparing what I would say next, but he had n...
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