"the customs, arts, social institutions and achievements of a particular nation, peoples, or other social group"
a spirit house. for and within a
culture
What? culture is this spirit house….For? Within? What kind of spirits might be drawn in?, to?
What kind of spirits might a member of said culture welcome? with joy and/or with trepidation?
spirits of all kinds are necessary.
the spirits of place
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I am reminded of Dee’s walks with her dog. Abandoned houses with faded curtains and a few stray household articles- a cup, a chair……..an empty glass bottle- still inside. Also Mending Grace and the found domestic cloth she collected on her walks with her dog and used in her work. All left behind and found again. All those things held spirit.
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it’s making me think about Findhorn and how the tools there had a Deva that spoke for them as a collective and sometimes relational to specific implements … and my Asian neighbors from a scattering of countries during our final years in Boston. A collective of multi-generational women owned the place next door. They had a spirit house or some type of similar shrine at the periphery of their garden. House shaped. Rocks piled off to one side. Incense was burned there. I always longed to know more.
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and within that, many different spirits
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yes…this tho is from reading about those spirit houses
of Bangkok…built FOR them, in this case, stitched
for them
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devas of metal
your neighbors…like Bangkok
and there, many houses, changing as the need for
relating to the changing spirit population
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I’m thinking about Menachem’s idea that we (as white people Wanting racial healing) must create culture strong and true enough to hold Black pain. Somehow this cloth speaks to that level of holding. It looks like an opening to another world. And it doesn’t even look like cloth anymore. (Menachem of “My Grandmother’s Hands”)
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strong enough to hold pain
the WILL for that, even….the WILL to go there, to feel the need
for the WILL to go there
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