reemergence... - being unsettled

traveling at 680 miles per hour from los angeles

Tongva and Chumash lands

back home to Dallas

Comanche and Caddo territory

not sure how it is that traveling at 36,000 feet

helps me feel grounded

perhaps it’s the very purposeful, focused attention

of a pilot, airline, flight crew

not to mention all the other passengers

going from point a to point b

maybe it’s some of that

which gives me new energy and excitement

of course seeing Bilbo struggle in the borderlands

outside of his comfort zone in Hobbiton

last night on the big screen

doesn’t hurt also

reminds me of underworld journeys

personal and social transformation

facing, owning and integrating shadows of my own

but i digress, or not…

what i intend to acknowledge here is

my reemergence from the underworld of moving boxes

among other baggage

getting back to the ethnoautobiography book

nurturing the new connections

with ana, christine, fabio and their practices of decolonization

which also affirms and validates the path i am on

as well as writing proposals about ethnoautobiography

for two conferences next year

putting myself out there in the world

taking the risk, being vulnerable

moving along a path with care, attention, intention

gathering my life together

with all of those around me

sounds a bit like being on an airplane

reemergence…