Haiku My Heart: Reflection

Reflection by Miles Morgan with kind permission

Water Carves Through Stone

Silken Vein of Liquid Light

A World Shaped by Dreams

~Noelle Renee

 

Darkness by Nicolas Evariste

Poverty and Struggle are Twin siblings with Despair and Lost Hope; these have been with us since time immemorial. They are, in many respects, foundational to cultural relationships in which there exist the “Haves and the Have-nots.

One Group lives with little to nothing so that the Other Group, more fortunate, by birth or by virtue of Political Aggression may live with Entitlement. The dysfunctional nature of  the United States ongoing relationship with Mexico may be perceived in this way.

This old photograph is part of Mexican Americans' history in Nebraska. Here, a visiting nurse poses with Mexican children in 1922. (Library of Congress)

But History is Not graven in Stone and Every

So Often things Change for the Better~

If Water can cut a path through rock,  shifting the course of its luminous thread, its one, bright dream~

What other changes will follow?

Can the course of a Life be changed if a pattern of thought is shifted?

 Will the thinker or the person

whose life is transformed by that thought

ever be the same again?

Chiapas girl photo by Al Borrelli used with kind permission

For now and ever after, each one

is inextricably intertwined with the other

in a dance of compassionate cooperation

and human transformation.

Waiting by Art Lionse with kind permission

I cannot fly or make something appear in my hand,

I cannot make the heavens open or the earth tremble,

I can live with myself, and I am amazed at myself, my love,

my beauty,

I am taken by my failures, astounded by my fears,

I am stubborn and childish,

in the midst of this wreckage of life they incurred,

I practice being myself,

and I have found parts of myself never dreamed of by me,

they were goaded out from under rocks in my heart

when the walls were built higher,

when the water was turned off and the windows painted black.

I followed these signs

like an old tracker and followed the tracks deep into myself,

followed the blood-spotted path,

deeper into dangerous regions, and found so many parts of myself,

who taught me water is not everything,

and gave me new eyes to see through walls,

and when they spoke, sunlight came out of their mouths,

and I was laughing at me with them,

we laughed like children and made pacts to always be loyal,

who understands me when I say this is beautiful?

~Excerpt from Jimmy Baca’s “Who Understands Me But Me”

If you want to go to a place where water carves rock and dreams become reality; where possibility mixed with love and generosity leaps beyond the boundaries and limitations of the “haves and the “have nots'” to create an amazing, cooperative melting pot of artistic expression for the purpose of raising a crumbling roof over the heads of deserving and wonderful children, then go to Rebecca’s blog. There, you will find a Gallery of Hope filled with the handiwork of 27 AMAZING ARTISTS whose work is beyond compare. Each shrine has been created with love, compassion and the intention that each child connected to Oaxaca Streetchildren Grassroots would have the opportunity to go to school, perhaps for the first time.

Won’t you travel over to Rebecca’s blog, register at the Gallery of Hope and Feast your eyes on the beauty that awaits you there? You will be so glad that you did. The button below will also lead you to the post for the Auction benefit. The auction began on Sunday, June 5, 2011 and ends Sunday June 12, 2011 at 6 pm. Thank you.

Que tu corazón sea bendito por su amabilidad!

~Noelle Renee

“Dancing” by Rebecca Brooks taken in Oaxaca, Mexico

Change Your thinking, Change Your Actions, Change a Life.