Beloved family. And I mean that. All of you. On this New Year’s Eve as the entire world turns its eyes and hearts towards 2021 with hope, I ask you to consider the most recent moment of kindness given to you or which you yourself gave another. And follow it back...
Trace it through the people and their people’s people. Observe.
I have wept many times this year because of the Kindness of each of You. Because of you, we have been able to provide humanitarian aid for 500+ people in the slums of Katwe, Kampala, Uganda.
What this means is that because I chose to do something, others stepped forward to help me help Others.
When I was first invited into Katwe by my brother, Allan Reighns, I had no idea what I would witness but once I saw I could not Not do anything.
I would never have met Allan if it were not for Gaea Logan inviting me to co-facilitate a training in Makerere University with The International Center for Mental Health and Human Rights. I would never have met Gaea had I not been invited to partake in a training at Garrison Institute. I would never been invited to do that if I had not been asked to teach at Lineage Project and that would never have happened without meeting Sharon Salzberg and none of that would have happened if a friend had not suggested so many years ago that I try Yoga.
Everything we do, no matter how big or small affects everything else and everyone else especially when it is fueled with Kindness. Or Anger.
The choice is yours.
Follow it backwards. Notice. Observe. Follow it forwards if you can.
And Choose wisely.
Tonight I celebrate all of the Kind acts that culminated in me helping others. And all of you helping me help them. We are All connected. Like one cell in a multicellular organism.
Please celebrate your kind hearts and how they were fed by others’ acts of kindness. In the video my sister, Black Empress Brenda, says my name and offers Thanks. This is for you because I am every single one of You. I am all of you that have donated and all of you that have needed help. We all are.
May we all be Happy, Peaceful, Safe and at Ease.
Happy New Year and thank you so much from all of us!
