h e a l e r

that's you. day 31.

We are here.

I always come to the end of this month with so much tenderness toward all of you.

Whether you wrote poetry or not.

Whether you opened all these emails or not.

However you show up here is exactly how you should show up here.

Mino-bimadiziiwin is about living in a good way, showing up as best we can with our truest selves for one another, for Mother Earth. I feel you all do this for yourselves and each other so often.

You’ve done this for me time after time, and I can’t tell you how grateful I am.

Before we get to today’s word, I have a surprise, and I am so glad to finally show it to you:

I am publishing an e-book of my poetry!

This is the perfect time to share this project with you, as we’ve been steeped in the medicine of poetry all month.

So many of you have been in workshops with me where I’ve read newer, unpublished poetry, and you’ve asked me where you can read it. I am so happy to tell you that now these poems have a home and are available to all of us.

Thresholds of Alchemy is a journey through the healing portals of poetry, exactly what we’ve been practicing here together over the last month (and really the last several years).

Many of these poems have been born over the last two years. They are some of the most powerful I’ve written, cloaked in my medicine, in the care of my ancestors. I hope that you feel this when you read them, that they sink into your soft, tender body, into your waiting soul, into your being as a form of medicine.

Here’s how it works. I’m publishing the e-book directly from my website. Check it out below:

Again, igwien, deep, deep thanks for being my people. Over the next several weeks I’ll be sharing readings of the poetry and some of the stories behind these poems.

Today’s word is healer.

We touch
each other’s
souls because
we are stardust,
kissing the night
sky with every
word put to the
page.

When we think 
we can’t find
the way, those
stars light up,
telling us where 
to go, singing us
back to sleep
after the long,
hard journey.

Kiss the stardust
of your belonging,
hands over your heart,
Healer tattooed there,
a word that keeps
you safe so that you 
always remember
exactly who you are.

Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash

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