10 Comments
User's avatar
Amy Walsh's avatar

Have you read The Dawn of Everything? What you were saying about our democracy emerging fully formed from our founders' heads reminded me of it. In their research they found that Indigenous North American concepts of governance were a much stronger influence on their ideals than the Greeks and Romans.

Expand full comment
Jeff Clithero's avatar

Thank you Dionyse for bringing us Sophie and Perdita and the promise of real independence for life and living on mother Earth....

Expand full comment
Robin Heart Shepperd's avatar

Well said.

Expand full comment
Kathy MacDonald's avatar

This is one of my favorite pieces of your writing that I have read. It helped me to encapsulate all the feelings I have around "celebrating" this strange, delusion holiday, and filled my heart with joy at imagining a world re-wilded and without abstract notions of country. Thank you for the vines of connection you send out into the world to remind us we are not alone in our dreaming for a world in which we turn back to our natural belonging. May it be so, sooner rather than later.

Expand full comment
Mary Porter Kerns's avatar

Oh that image! Thank you for your words, your passion, my brave brave friend.

Expand full comment
Susan Meeker-Lowry's avatar

Thank you for this, today. Words that touch my heart, bring me to tears, that bypass the anger and bring me directly to Love.

Expand full comment
Bob McBeath's avatar

Aho.

Expand full comment
Rebecca H Crane's avatar

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Expand full comment
Kathleen Basheera Ritchie's avatar

Hear Hear! What an ugly 4th of July this is. What a despicable nation we've become. All my life I've made a practice of noticing what cannot be taken away or forbidden. Just in case. And now it looks like I had good reason. In Turkey, not that long ago, the government allowed the dervishes to turn for the tourists but watched their mouths carefully to make sure they were not praying at the same time! Is this where we're headed? Then we must learn to pray covertly.

Expand full comment
Rose and Cedar Forest's avatar

Thank you for every bit of this. As always, your words go straight to the root - to the heart of what matters. Weaving in Ursula's beautiful and heart-wrenching work was especially meaningful to me, as I'd written about this story a little while back, asking "What if we didn't walk away from Omelas?": https://open.substack.com/pub/roseandcedarforest/p/what-if-we-didnt-walk-away-from-omelas?r=b5o6i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Expand full comment