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The Blood That Gives Me Strength From Day to Day It Will Never Lose Its Power

Iyalosa OlaOmi Akalatunde: Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:11 AM

The Blood is The Life

The monthly issue of my mother, which is the substance that makes up my bones, my brain, and my own blood...is much more meaningful to me than that of a fictious Jewish carpenter

I do not feel that we are conscious enough of what the how insane the patriarchy has rendered us

The ways in which we deny the power of womanhood are so manifold and have become so commonplace to us that we usually are not fully aware of them

Most of us believe that the most spiritually cleansing substance, flowed from wounds inflicted on a young rabbi who was hanged for teaching foreign doctrines in Palestine some 2000 years ago

A courageous revolutionary young Afrikan its true.

But we've never seen him, never touched him, we do not even have concrete proof of his existence...but most of us believe that his blood can remove our "sins" can return us to some euphoric state of innocence...can heal and cleanse us

YET

the blood that flows from the holy of holies, the sacred wombs of our grandmothers, our mothers, our sisters, our wives is denounced as UNCLEAN

This very blood that issues from the birth canal, the path that we all take to begin this journey of life...that flows regularly from the women we love....from those who nurture us, dry our tears, feed, shelter and clothe us

The very elixir that is the foundation for each cell, each nerve, every little bit of bone and sinew that we use to live life every day

somehow that blood is BAD

is LOW

is DISGUSTING

is UNCLEAN

The patriarchy is nothing if not illogical

What types of tortures had to be rendered on the Ancestral Mothers to cause us to overlook this very obvious truth?

How many "witches" were burned?

How many "root workers" hanged?

What happened that caused us to stop believing our eyes to this extent?

Yes there is power in the blood

there is healing in the blood

Yes

the blood IS the life

and the blood of life does not require a champion

books do not need to be written about it or scriptures chanted over it

it simply

IS POWER

there is no power greater than the mysterious power of life itself

and this power IS in the blood

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ACCEPTANCE

Iyalosa OlaOmi Akalatunde: Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:19 PM

ACCEPTANCE....

I was musing this mornig upon waking about the essential nature of acceptance

Most modern humans are seeking acceptance from at least one person in this lifetime

Acceptance makes us feel wanted, it makes us feel loved, its makes us feel as if we belong

As with most other emotional elements in life acceptance is introduced to us by Mother/Yeye/Iya

Those of us who felt accepted by our mothers just as we are, know where to look for unconditional love, we know where to find it because we are familiar with what it feels like

Those of us whose mothers did not make us feel accepted, do not feel loved or wanted are familiar with feelings of rejection, of hurt, of non love and non acceptance and ususally spend a great deal of our lives unlearning how to find and participate in situations that perpetuate those feelings

Mothers....love and accept your babies

Let them know that their birth , whatever its circumstances is NO ACCIDENT

that they are here one EarthMotherOnile ON PURPOSE and therefore WITH PURPOSE

stretch our your hands to them as often as possible

embrace them whenever you are granted the opportunity

smile at them

make them feel welcomed in the world

ESSENTIAL

Further....a child who feels accepted at home, by Mother also knows how to accept others

This is a child who knows how to love, knows tolerance, can accept others different from himself and therefore is well suited to live life properly

While reading about the raping of the rainforests in South America I read of an elder Amazonian woman who spoke at a huge meeting the indigenous people had called with one of the logging corporations...as the native Amazonians tried to get the logging company to see how barbaric the practice of cutting down thousands of trees was and the loggers were trying to explain how in Western society money was reason enough to committ all manner of heinous acts...the elder Mother stepped forward and said to the loggers simply

"Your mothers did not hug you enough..."

The elder Mother was able to see that these loggers and the leaders of their corporation did not feel a deep abiding acceptance that comes from being loved properly by your Mother

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