in imageby you. Transformed by being spoken into existence by you.
Your rage waits for you to call it by its name.
Speak it. Translate it. Transcribe it. Plaster it up and down the halls
that house abusers of power. In giant font. In wailing screams. In and
through the vibrations true to you.
Pour your rage into your projects. Create ceremonies to honor it.
Therapy sessions to hold it. Read the myths that contextualize it.
Find friendships that validate your rage. Communities that are
gelvanized by the conscious use of their own. Actions that channel it
towards some kind of relief and release.
If your rage is showing up, if your pain is calling upon you, if the hurt
that you have harbored for years is erupting, it trusts you enough to
receive it.
Until we work with it, our rage, pain, and grief exists beneath the
surface of everything we do. Seething. Soaking into and poisoning
our best intentions. Contorting our hearts into shapes too collapsed
to house the love we so desire. Wrapping itself around our life-force,
strangling our creativity, staving off what is rightfully ours.
Stationing retrograde on October 5th, at 10° of Scorpio, Venus,
planet of love, connection, relationships, women, femmes,
femininity, and desire, reveals her other side. When Venus
retrogrades we get to work with all that is in opposiuon to it. The
experiences that evoke our most difficult emotions refuse to be
ignored. One of Venus's many retrograde lessons is that the abuse of

in imageDo not be daunted by the enormity
of the world's grief. Do justly now.
Love mercy now. Walk humbly
now. You are not obligated to
complete the work. but nerther are
you free to abandon it.
- The Talmud

in imageAt every protest, there's people who snatch the
megaphone just to hear themselves talk. They
drone on, preach to the choir or berate it, replace
energy with melodrama. But there's always folks
standing by quietly, the ones with clipboards,
cases of water, who get the permits, set up bail
funds, print the info pamphlets, organize voter
drives, work at tiny non-profits when the glory of
the day is over. Those are the real teachers...
Social media is in a protest formation right now.
An effective protest works as a classroom, a
funeral march and a parade. We don't berate folks
for how they learn, grieve or feel joy. We don't yell
at them for the legibility of their signs. Whether
you are "doing enough" is between you, your
conscience and your God (if you have one).
Tragedy and war help us to find teachers. Who is
asking if you need help with how to help? Who is
offering tangible solutions and who is selling
hysteria? Who is using the megaphone as a
microphone and who is quietly building
infrastructure? Who is making you feel helpless
and who is making you feel powerful?
@herreraimages
Leo Herrera
@herreraimages

in image4 years since the WHO declared COVID-19 a
pandemic. Many of us never dropped our shoulders
after that. Some of us literally can't breathe the same.
COVID was not the great equalizer we naively hoped,
but it was an event of mass clarity. Changed how we
saw people and government. There are friends and
family I still don't talk to, not after I witnessed risks
and privileges so different from mine. Did I overreact?
The official death toll is 7 million, but related deaths
are immeasurably higher. Is 4 years enough to mourn?
When will I get over streaming my grandmother's
funeral on a shitty signal on Facebook Live?
COVID fractured our version of reality. How could
some of us believe in a disease and others not? See
masks and vaccinations so differently? And how do
we consider millions dead and disabled but
also...good things? How many origin stories start with
"during the pandemic, I..started my business, learned
to (blank), got pregnant, got this dog, fell in love."
COVID changed our center of gravity by 6 feet, forced
us to cross the Rubicon. What parts of us stayed in
that lockdown, and what parts were set free?
Leo Herrera
@herreraimages

in imagePROFUNDIDAD: 50 UTS DEPTH: 150 FT | NADE BAJO SU PROPIO RIESGO SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK

in imageUH BUT IT
Cumulative strength
UM AND IT ALSO MENTIONS
Cumulative strength

in imageFuneral Director: "and now in honor of her remembrance we will play a song from her childhood"

in imageToday 11:20 AM
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Today 6:26 PM
We are
In truck with Phipps. All good. Mx
Nationals!!!
YAAAAAAY
I miss you guys
Delivered
Said bye bye after a
wisdom building
winter

in imageI UNDERSTAND THE CONNECTIVE
TISSUE OF JOY / GRIEF / RAGE
AND OTHER FEELINGS THAT BIND
US ALL TOGETHER IN THIS BRIEF
AND FRAGILE HUMAN EXISTENCE.
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@yumisa kugawa