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MISSION OVER MADNESS

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  MISSION OVER MADNESS https://www.spreaker.com/episode/mission-over-madness--72096094 The monkey is in the forest, and we are running so fast we’ve forgotten why we’re chasing it. We are "Mad, Sad, or Scared" because we are trying to fill our cups with external validation while they have cracks at the bottom. The truth, family, is that we have become "Accidental Beings," reacting to everything the world throws at us instead of designing the life we were born to live. This week of Kuumba reminds us that we are the architects. But you cannot build a new reality on the foundation of an old, broken one. You have to scrape off the buildup—the fear, the comparison, the "groupthink"—before you can paint a masterpiece. A Call to Inaction: Stop trying to "do" more. Stop adding tasks to your list. The mission is not to get busier; it is to get clearer. The proverb "Slow-slow one grabs the monkey in the forest" isn't about laziness; it’s ab...

Ujima 21021-5

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Imani 13121-5

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Ujima Day 12721-5

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Daily Toast - Umoja "Let's open the lines"

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Grab your glass and join us. I had some problems with the stream but we pushed through this morning. via https://youtu.be/T5p56Qdxjkw

Daily Toast

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Peace FAM: Daily we gather aroung the "virtual community fire" known as the internet to lift our glasse to salute those who came before us. I decided that we needed to create a ritual where we lift up our personal Ancetors. My personal favorite part of libations has always been where we salute those ancestors that we rose from, and I feel that often we overlook them for the bigger names that we learn in our classes. I wanted to set a space and a time where we focused exclusively on our persoanl ancestors. In my studies I have learned that "hell (at least the closest thing we had to a hell) for an African was being forgotten." That is why I am diligent about making sure that we mention there names every morning. What started as me celebrating my ancestors turned into building up a community list, and group of people that have introduced the concept of Toasting into their lives.  Through this process which has been going on everyday for the last 17 months we have i...