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Your NEW favorite mewsletter bridging the sacred, profane and mundane woven into a tapestry of life affirming hope, tactical strategies to do more than cope & sober sometimes more than somber truths
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June 29th, 2022
DIASPORA OF LOVE
Welcome to your NEW favorite mewsletter bridging the sacred, profane and mundane weaving all into a tapestry of life the warp and weft of affirming hope with tactical strategies to do more than cope & sober sometimes more than somber truths never leaving the wings on the ground for too long and not flying so high as to dismiss our beloved skin upon which skim our kisses reintroducing heaven again and again and again.
Uplift!
Dive deep!
Clearing, cleaning out the hardened debris. Softening with rarified frequencies melting the stones. Renew the path of superconductivity. That’s what we’re offering!
We’re here! Together again!
Come find out how we all live up to it!
Come, be steeped in the sanity of silence, our true home while we help enlace the warp and weft of understanding and temperance with out right unmitigated catharsis sparking glimmers of awarenesses all the way to the full moon of Neptunes in galaxies beyond. Embracing the opening of the heavens in downright torrential heart-releasing downpours and, then, wildest ignition of rocket fueled stratospheric liberation and back again.
This is my new unfurling expression of outrageous honesty and playful, sometimes obnoxiously irreverent, sometimes ever so sweetly saintly written offerings.
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Admiring A Fellow Writer: Celebrating & Sharing Other’s Talents
I’m going to start off by introducing you to and sharing a welcome email written so astutley by brilliant writer I admire and follow: the inimitable, independent reporter @HouseInHabit aka Jessica Reed Kraus whose substack I highly recommend. You can find her substack here.
She captures these razor’s edge and exciting times with a flair for the seeming frivolous and toxic gossip all the way to the down right essential turning it all into a gorgeous soup of solid, satisfying story fit for us all.
I love how Jessica expresses her message to her new subscribers so beautifully in this era obvious-to-more-than-ever though blind-to-too-many.
What is it and why?
I share two of her wondrously said sentences summing it up from her intro:
“Your subscription here directly supports a movement embracing a new wave of independent journalism. Because writers here are paid by you (the public) we can be as creative and uncensored and controversial as we want in the content we cover.
“In today’s media climate, where unbridled censorship appears to only be growing more intense, this outlet feels a little like a godsend for writers like myself, who miss story telling unattached to political bias.”
Said so well, yes?! Follow her as you’re inspired. She’s a gift. I support Jessica’s work and others transparent expressions like her by paying for her substack subscription. I’m grateful for and honored to have your support of my new substack channel, Diaspora Of Love, also. How exciting!
By the way, if you haven’t noticed yet, my copy editing skills can be better but I do my best and, hopefully, make up for it with entertaining and some levels of profundity and things you’ve longed to read at some and many points!
Each Of Us Are Unique
I’ll also add that I may not always agree with every stance Jessica takes and I love this. I’m all for a range of perceptions and beliefs and allegiances as long as there’s honesty, integrity of expression, humility, humor and self-divulgence with a bit or a lot of wildness. And, Jessica is all these profoundly and seemingly effortlessly. She is truly a skilled and experienced reporter, story teller worthy of your time and dollars. I hope to give such value to you and more in different ways expanding your spectrum of nourishment on all levels.
Growing and Learning
One of my tenets in life is the importance of being around people who think, perceive differently from me.
This seems obtuse to say because who in the world thinks that there is anyone who, actually, thinks the same as anyone else? Aren’t we all unique? No one thinks exactly alike, right? If we did, how truly absurd, boring and unenlightened – hehe – to think we can and should surround ourselves only with “like-minded” people. My goodness, that’s insane and impossible and, again, boring and to say the least, unchallenging.
Yet, many people prefer to be around only those whom they think thinks just like them. Now, that’s another kind of madness because as much as we’d like to live in this kind of apparent comfort at some point we will likely head into a rude awakening that those we think are like us are just not like us at all. Isn’t that funny how that works. And, visa versa, too!
Some foundation of similar values are critical for those closest to us. Rare are similar beliefs in those with whom we’ve grown up or, from inexperience and naiveté, to whom we’ve chosen to be close.
Funny how that works out doesn’t it? Our values can differ so greatly even with those whose values we perceive as the same. Layers, the onion peeling, reveals over time who we are even to ourselves. This unmasking is a bit of maze until we learn to surf the letting go freeing ourselves while we learn to free others.
Meaning, we often think those closest to us think just like us, when in secret, or just waiting in the wings, some occasion, a new political air, for instance, or a tragedy or even a wonderful success will expose some serious divergences never expected since that of the marital bed of newbies. Hah!
Deprogramming from Malware and Reconditioning with Freedomware!
We are not all the same in all ways. That’s just a given. But, in our arrogance and laziness, we often forget these things. Life will remind us, though, as we’ve seen so much in these last few years and will continue to as this is what life does best.
As we shrink wrap ourselves into seclusion from the challenges of otherness, eventually, we have to loosen that grip on fear-of-death aka fear of change to switch the spiral’s gears doing an about face toward that of expansion opening our hearts where they were once closed and hardened with judgements our own and manufactured by external forces of the malignant kind.
In these crazy, hair-triggered, brayn-warsh’d days – expect more of this kind of tawlk cuz I like it at times. All of this is my raison d’être.
Riding The Wave Rapture
I live for this stuff – this challenge, this messy, messed up misunderstandings that I love to unravel, organize all the threads and reweave it all into a beautiful new creation with you for all our pleasure and joy!
Exuberance fills me in helping you navigate these murky, tumultuous, confusing, wondrous, waters swishing between decay and renewal – a pendulum knocking down who we thought we once were building someone new within us just as another thing is destroyed, leveled, molten and utterly disintegrated, a new self is being heaved and hoed, lifted and leavened, baked and broiled to be beaten, eaten, digested and FREED nourishing our very own selves becoming what we are truly meant to be: whole, ever evolving wholeness filled with the wisdom from experience and downloading the wisdom from eternal being then tumbling into misfits all over again until our transmogrification ceases to be and all that’s left is nothingness – the everlasting source of all.
Learning Through Opposites: The Gift of the Temper Tantrum
People can be steeped in conditioned responses which are not stemming from their natural selves. I’m a big proponent of learning through the wondrous challenge of being different as discovering the joys of temperance as well as boldness in the face of diametric beliefs.
There are, obviously, fundamental unifying principals upon which friendship and community are based. Having said this, bearing witness to other’s ways of being and bearing witness to our own reactions to said differences is all that maturing as a human is all about. And, I’m all about that.
The Core: Spinning Revealing All
I didn't know that in sharing the beauty about another writer that I was going to have my introduction newsletter spin into exactly what I’m all about and precisely why I am compelled with love, joy, intensity and play to bring this new baby in being. But, hey, how perfect and how very relevant to my whole entire m.o.!
I’m all about the under belly of relating and the inner workings of relationships. You can say that this is truly my passion and purpose for creating this platform for you all to enjoy.
Come to think of it, how apropos, too, that Jessica is the one who inspired me to break my final stubborn straw, to take the last step to plunge into the deep end of this beautiful pool which I love more than so many other things. Into this substack of ocean of writers and readers I dive divine.
Returning Home: The Prodigal Writer Prolific and Stymied
I’ve been circling this and other platforms for months, years, really, trying to decide where to plant my seeds and raise my sacred crops to feed the world unlike any other as we each contain the nourishment unlike any other to feed myself at the same time doing one of the things I love most. All while building community, we circle round and round sprinkling our seeds of varying sizes, diverse nourishment, raising the next generation while making the current one and elders laugh and cry and sing in disbelief that they, too, can still let go.
Receiving
Jessica’s stalwart presence and exuding talent inspired the clear impetus jump in, finally, what I’ve been waiting for! And, I’m so thrilled I did!
Let’s get together and learn to ask for the support – and, even more importantly, to learn to receive this on-going, loving support – giving and receiving, flowing joyously with integrity prospering in our hearts, bodies, minds, souls and Spirit.
The time is now to express our beautiful gifts in our world!
I share Jessica’s sentiments on the importance of unmitigated, free thinking, true and honest, in all its ever-changing layers, unadulterated expression, unhampered by bites of biases and free of gouges of paid malignant loyalties from unfathomably horrid, corrupt, megalomaniacs and worse.
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Choose free thinkers!
Say “YES!” to those who bare their hearts and souls for freedom’s sake on all levels divulging what few have the courage to expose putting the pieces together few have the skill to do or the desire to do but sense deep in our hearts what we most long to hear and feel. To realize the things we have buried, lost touch with, denied through shame and doubt, disloyal and distrusting of our very own selves, writers, me, Jessica and maybe you, too, and so many more throughout the ages do.
Liberate the media from within! Become immune to the seduction of lies and mynd con-troll.
Choose instinct!
Choose value!
Choose courage!
Choose transparency!
Choose strength!
Choose vulnerability!
Choose being real.
Choose discovery and curiosity!
Choose YOU!
Together we can encourage each other to choose ourselves.
Choose ourselves where we were trained to deny the beauty within us.
Choose honesty!
Choose love!
Who Am I?
I’m different from Jessica’s style as we each are unique. I’ve never called myself a reporter per say, as she is, yet, maybe I’ll start!
I’ve written as long as I could pick up a crayon – a rock – more on that later. Writing has always been second nature to me – a passionate core tool to express my understanding of this thing we call humanity. Through my inspirational books on the nature of our psyche in prose, poetry and practical manuals, I’ve delivered the wisdom that pours out from my innermost being.
I’m more of a reporter on the human inner condition. I recount, transmit, divulge, advise, interpret, elucidate, inform, educate and question the human expression – the mysterious adventure of the Spirit dancing in form.
I enjoy to usher forth emanations traversing the realms from the timeless into time back into the timeless again and everything in between.
From the mundane to the sacred to the profane and I love all of it.
I love all of us.
Knowing all our worth and uncovering the source of all of our sense of worthlessness all to heal, repair and integrate this thing we call our humanity which is so much more than our words can describe yet this is one way we have to bring through that which is indescribable and ineffable and simply eternal.
Call me what you will as long as you call me!
I look forward to unfurling together our hearts and souls opening into new realms of joyousness through the freedom of honesty and audacious intimacy of thought, word and deed. Kindness reigns supreme.
With everlasting love,
Diaspora of Love
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Saralina, your heart speaks poetically. Your spirt has reached mine across many miles of distance btw us.