Sunflower Stories
Across Ukraine, people of extraordinary courage are standing against Putin’s horrific war crimes, and shining their lights in peace. In Poland, where 4 million refugees are streaming in, brave and compassionate young birthworkers, mothers themselves, are coming together to create mother centers for co-housing, childcare, healing and mutual support for cooperative and homelike peaceful births.
Around the world, good people are coming together Gestating Peace.
Varvara
Asiya
Nadiia
Nadiya
Vola
Alena
These six women, in five different cities across Poland, are each building a local circle for mutual support. And more circles are forming...
Gestating Peace
“Satyagraha (; Sanskrit: सत्याग्रह; satya: "truth", āgraha: "insistence" or "holding firmly to")*, or "holding firmly to truth", or "truth force", is a particular form of nonviolent resistance or civil resistance.
we dwell in the possibility
that creation will outpace destruction
that truth will shatter lies
we dwell in the possibility
that remembering “past” will heal the forgetting
and bless the forgotten
opening portals to ancestor wisdom
we dwell in the possibility
that satyagraha, soulforce,
will melt weapons
we dwell in the possibility
that this warming planet will cool
as her passion is seeding
“future” in each surviving heart
I dwell in the possibility
that the liberation of innocence will begin
even if my body is one of the fallen
we dwell in the possibility that
our species join all others
in ecstatic equality
in the body of lover earth
we dwell in the possibility that
the power of love will
overcome the love of power
on earth as it is in heaven
we dwell in the possibility that
the kindness we see in each one’s eyes
here, now, be multiplied a thousandfold
in you, and you, and you..
as we become the light of the world..
we are pregnant with possibility
encircled by midwives
waiting, breathing, weeping, singing,
pushing NOW, birthing the new story.
Diana Morningstar. 3/8/2022
*(Wikipedia, "Satyagraha," April 20, 2022)
