bright in your face

the sun will be bright in your face

and we will be beside you

behind you

we will see you through shadow

and we will be beside you

in our sunglasses and smiles

we will see you through the shadow

while you wonder

in our sunglasses and smiles

we hold you

while you wonder if

we are angels or afterlives

we hold you

and tilt our heads in close

angling after life

we flank your fat

and tilt our heads in close

behind you

we flank your fat the sun

bright in your face

Today I am embracing the brightness of ancestral presence and guidance, especially when life changes at a rate where I really don’t know what I’m looking at. This picture reminds me to remember that what supports and protects me is not actually the clarity of my vision. It is the support of my loved ones. These two archangel ancestors especially, that supports me to move into a future so bright I can’t describe it. As a severely nearsighted person, like my Dad and also like Audre Lorde, I want to be present to possibility beyond an ableist narrative of vision as progress. Of progress at all. I am ready to unlearn my life as an earned achievement and to accept it as a gift. I want to honor the people, the elements the energy that continually gives me this gift I am calling life. I want to affirm that my joy, my future, my success is not limited by what I can see from here. It is not predicated on my excellence as a seeing being. It is often beautifully blurred which is part of the gift of remembering I am not separate from life. I am not dominating life by naming and distinguishing this and that. I am part of life, and on a good day I don’t know where I end. And every day I am held and grateful.

P.S. My every day writing practice shapes my days into vessels for generations of love. If you want support with your own daily creative practice, I’d love to be part of your journey. This is the Stardust and Salt Daily Creative Practice Intensive.