Practicing Parades

To live in community with others — to share our stories with each other and to write new ones together — is how we metabolize our griefs and traumas and heartache. When we do this, we shift from self-identifying with our own stories and egos and move to a place of recognition and remembering the organism to which we belong. Sit with that word: re-membering. It’s less about an abstract recall of what happened to us and more about the reconstructive surgery of stitching body parts back together after they’ve each subscribed to an illusion of separateness.

Remembering is recognizing our interconnectedness; it is eagerly putting our communal selves back together; it is loving our particular function while knowing that function works best in service to the larger Body. We are each a beautiful entry in an endless parade. It is the parade to which we belong.

How might we spend time re-membering? And with whom?