Three Healing Pathways to Practice Together — Intertwine February-April 2021
Here are three ways you can experience healing with the support of our spiritual community as we move from winter to spring.
• Introducing 40 Days ◦ 8 Questions a journey of care and introspection beginning this (Ash) Wednesday. •
•• Tania Aubid, Shanai Matteson and other Water Protectors begin a fast in prayerful resistance to Line 3. Below are ways to join in prayer and care-filled action for the water and our indigenous siblings. ••
••• Have you engaged with My Grandmother’s Hands, and how? If not, want to start? Let’s check in about this powerful work. •••
Intertwine is beginning on a journey we’re calling 40 Days : 8 Questions. It will be a season of practicing care and wonder-filled introspection. This journey coincides with the Judeo-Christian season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday — that’s this Wednesday!
Over these 40 days, we’ll discern who we are/are becoming by exploring 8 questions. These questions will be drawn from wisdom sayings (logions) contained in the Gospel of Thomas. You’re invited to immerse yourself in these questions through journaling, art, conversation and meditation.
We’ll be sharing a new question and logion each Wednesday. We’ll also share a daily email/post with affirming words, wisdom, and parallel questions and prompts to draw out deeper engagement with that week’s question.
Our Sunday gatherings, between now and Easter, will revolve around the question for the week. Interactive. Meaningful. Fun, even!
— JOURNEY BEGINS WEDNESDAY -
Healing thru Prayerful Resistance of Line 3
On February 14, Tania Aubid of the Mille Lacs Band, along with Shanai Matteson and other Water Protectors, began a prayerful fast — a hunger strike — for all the missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW) and for the water.
(From left: Shanai and Tania with cousin Trista, in St. Paul)
Tania and Shanai recently joined in on our Connecting to the River Within gathering. We heard their stories of love for the land and water, and of their prayerful, care-filled and messy work protecting the water, building community and resisting Line 3.
If you’d like to join or continue in prayerful solidarity, there are several ways to be involved. First and foremost, prayerfully and mindfully honor and thank the water — it truly is life. Hold Tania, Shanai and other Water Protectors in prayer as they fast. Maybe even consider your own fast in solidarity.
Here are other ways to get involved:
Go and Pray with Water Protectors at the Mississippi
Pilgrimage to the Great River Water Protector Welcome Center
(Great care is exercised at camp with their COVID-19 protocols.)
Make a Financial or In-Kind Donation
Donate directly to the Front Lines
Donate to Honor the Earth
In-kind wish list for the Great River camp
Tell the Big Banks & Institutions to Defund Line 3
Participate in StoptheMoneyPipeline
a movement to divest from destruction and invest with care.
Follow and Share the Story (web & socials):
Follow Tania Aubid on Facebook
Follow Giniw Collective on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
Follow Honor the Earth on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
Follow StopLine3 on Instagram and Facebook
Follow camp migizi on Facebook
Follow Red lake treaty camp on facebook
Follow welcome water protectors on facebook and instagram
#waterislife #stopline3 #defundline3 #waterprotectors
The Healing Work of My Grandmother’s Hands
Have you been working through Resmaa Menakem’s, My Grandmother’s Hands (MGH)? Maybe you haven’t read it and want to explore the healing practices it contains? Are you practicing through the book with others?
Shortly after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police and the Uprising this tragedy amongst tragedies sparked, Interwtine began engaging in the trauma-addressing and healing work offered in MGH.
This is powerful and timely wisdom. It’s about tending to our trauma (racialized and other) and resourcing ourselves to move through fear so that we may be transformative presence. This country and our neighborhoods need more settled and rooted people. This is an invaluable tool to help us become them.
These insights and practices have been brought into our Sunday gatherings. Many have read through the book on their own and, even better, many of us are practicing through the material in small groups.
We’d like to know if and how you’ve engaged, or are engaging with, MGH.
Read it? Practicing it?
Working in a group through it?
Hearing it call to you from the bookshelf?
And, if you haven’t worked with the book and you’d like to start, we’d love to support you in that as well. We have a few copies to give away.
We get to support each other in this work. Please let Mike know about your engagement or desire to engage with My Grandmother’s Hands.
We’ll be gathering stories and collective wisdom to support each other as we continue to heal from white-body supremacy and trauma.
Peace and breath, friends!
