dear friends,

Below is a list I wrote in late 2020. I found it this week, in the quiet between holidays and new year. I am sharing it with you in the hopes that one of the items speaks to you, is something you need to hear or something you sense you might have written yourself. A list to accompany you into 2023.

thank you for being part of my work & world

happy new year

georgia

making a ceremony:

ingredients, questions & reminders

1. dust is always collecting
2. the longest night of the year
3. the longest day of the year
4. what is fear and what is intuition?
5. remember last season and the way it felt in your hands
6. light a candle
7. make a bed every day
8. eat everyday
9. say i love you to something or someone every day
10. remember that thing you did as a child, do it now
11. what wants to be honored?
12. what did your great great grandmother know that you don't know?

13. name the names that want to be named
14. fire warms
15. fire burns
16. of course we want to be whole
17. write to the shadows
18. body of work
19. body of knowledge
20. body of water
21. body of the guru
22. body of the missing
23. what do you know that my great great grandmother didn't know ?

24. sorrow likes to be kept in a cool dry place
25. sorrow likes to be kept in direct sunlight
26. water it often
27. watch your elder walk away
28. imagine the unborn standing
29. world as solitude
30. world as mirror
31. hold a small thing that is fragile and name it god
32. consider making a promise to the sky
33. this is not morality
34. reform your knowing
35. orient toward your belonging
36. read poems
37. put what you want under your pillow
38. look into your own eyes when you are brushing your teeth
39. watch the moon
40. figure out how you are a piece of this world

41. what is beyond your urgency?
42. look at your hands like they are someone else's
43. look at a strangers eyes like they are your own
44. remember the are quiet emergences among us that don't use alarms
45. define your own sacred
46. light a candle
47. make a circle with objects, with a song, with a life
48. speak the words your soul longs to hear
49. make a thought and walk it over again if it has nice scenery
50. scream
51. dance
52. don't accept the end you are handed if you feel there is more
53. be the last one to leave
54. be the first one to arrive
55. put a stone in your bag
56. say the same thing under you tongue every time you pass the doorway
57. speak the mole on your arm
58. let the sentences not be finished
59. store images in your inner thigh
60. tell the dolls you won’t forget them
61. thank water every time you use it, drink it, see it, touch it, cross it, stand below it or sit within it

62. what types of discoveries are available to us?
63. make something to help yourself let go
64. imagine the sky hiding under the earth
65. walk as if the sunset is below your feet
66. be near the group
67. be near the ground
68. cut up the words: soak them, burn them, whisper them, pass them on
69. watch light in a room until it changes
70. when the flowers smell rotten get rid of them but thank them first
71. get familiar with contradiction
72. bake contradiction a cake
73. hold hands when you can
74. remember the importance of constellations
75. remember your nails are dead
76. remember your teeth are bones
77. do it with the group
78. do it by yourself
79. find the thing that is not placeable and make that thing sacred
80. remember what you can not named is not meant for language
81. store that which not named in the quiet space between your body

and the bodies of those who are no longer with us
82. give the moon another name
and don't tell anyone that name.