10 Ak'ab'al

#1 · 30/05/2025, 3:20 am

Be a home.

From this encounter of the opposites, a third option must arise. It's too soon to be any further. For now that option is to stay open and in that role you're playing make sure that at least you are a home. There are two main stages in life. The first where you are little and to receive, and the second where you are big and it's time to give. Giving is so hard in this modern world, we are in a time where most struggle to survive. The apocalypse has become the new normal, we're attuned to the earth shaking away any day or world war three nuking our asses to oblivion. It's so there, so here, and so not here, being crazy makes more sense.

Even if we are "making it" we are unable to effectively help others make it, and so we're dragged together to a pretty shitty place. We couldn't be more disconnected to each other, we can only keep so few connections, we can afford so little love, being human is so expensive, humanity is more and more scarce. The more you allow your role to drag you into what is being programmed by the AI, the more we will be stolen from a real life, from being real, from being there, from being human. We must look at this and attempt to counteract it actively. The bells are whistling, we really aren't in a time of ease and let's settle in the calm state of the world. It's burning and it's coming.

Ak'ab'al's tenth advice for this time is be as warm as you can be, comprehensive, hospitable. As much as you can, even from the imposed scarcity, try to be hospitable to others, give them your love, food, your time. It's not a time to be judging or discriminating. We're all fucked as fuck so we better get a better attitude. All shit's forgiven, let's move on. But let's be up to the challenge, let's show that we can really be hospitable even to those who are mean. Let's be warm enough to communicate, let's be grown ups for once, there aren't any other ones, we are all we have.

#2 · 30/05/2025, 6:19 pm

Citando a Antoinette del 30/05/2025, 6:19 pm
For much of the day, before I read your post early evening (Australian time) all of these themes had been running through me.

I decided a few years back to make an effort to be the invitation and provide the invitation to others - to open my home and heart as much as possible. It doesn't matter who can or can't make it, as long as the door is open. For the past couple of years, myself and other friends - all of them artists in my neighbourhood - have been gathering together once every couple of months or so. Because we all wanted to be creative, and come together in person, share food, strengthen bonds of connection and friendship and just not be on the fucking internet. There's 2 or 3 of us among the entire group of 8-10 who consistently make it happen and who put in the effort. One in particular who is big of heart and generous who I would describe as the "glue" that connects us all. She's one of the ones who makes the effort.

But lately it's felt like a challenge to a couple of us when others are not making the effort. We've been feeling grumpy when people just don't show up, or make excuses that are basically social media driven brain-washing about "self-care" which means staying home, numbing out and scrolling on social media. And yes - I'm being judgemental - but "self-care" I feel is a bit of a lie many of us women are told - and tell ourselves - that's a brainwash from social media. A delusion that's weakened us. We embrace the all the labels we have for ourselves that make us feel "too sensitive" for living and less like genuinely connecting with one another and strengthening our nervous systems. Because it's also encouraged us to only think about how we feel, and not consider others at all, or recognise that we're interdependent and not isolated little bubbles. And yesterday I felt frustrated - and yes - a bit judgemental. But I thought, "fuck it, stop feeling sorry for yourself you chose this, Antoinette". I just have to keep doing it - keep offering the invitation, because I want to offer a lamp in the dark. A soft place to fall. It was burning through the negative feelings about it. You can lead a horse to water...And then I read today's post and it confirmed that. It was a check to me. Just be hospitable and let it go. Keep going.

Meanwhile, my daughter who is a professional musician released a piece of music - a song - out to the world. A flower for the cosmos, a beautiful, generous act without expectation of anything in return. Create, release, move on.

For much of the day, before I read your post early evening (Australian time) all of these themes had been running through me.

I decided a few years back to make an effort to be the invitation and provide the invitation to others - to open my home and heart as much as possible. It doesn't matter who can or can't make it, as long as the door is open. For the past couple of years, myself and other friends - all of them artists in my neighbourhood - have been gathering together once every couple of months or so. Because we all wanted to be creative, and come together in person, share food, strengthen bonds of connection and friendship and just not be on the fucking internet. There's 2 or 3 of us among the entire group of 8-10 who consistently make it happen and who put in the effort. One in particular who is big of heart and generous who I would describe as the "glue" that connects us all. She's one of the ones who makes the effort.

But lately it's felt like a challenge to a couple of us when others are not making the effort. We've been feeling grumpy when people just don't show up, or make excuses that are basically social media driven brain-washing about "self-care" which means staying home, numbing out and scrolling on social media. And yes - I'm being judgemental - but "self-care" I feel is a bit of a lie many of us women are told - and tell ourselves - that's a brainwash from social media. A delusion that's weakened us. We embrace the all the labels we have for ourselves that make us feel "too sensitive" for living and less like genuinely connecting with one another and strengthening our nervous systems. Because it's also encouraged us to only think about how we feel, and not consider others at all, or recognise that we're interdependent and not isolated little bubbles. And yesterday I felt frustrated - and yes - a bit judgemental. But I thought, "fuck it, stop feeling sorry for yourself you chose this, Antoinette". I just have to keep doing it - keep offering the invitation, because I want to offer a lamp in the dark. A soft place to fall. It was burning through the negative feelings about it. You can lead a horse to water...And then I read today's post and it confirmed that. It was a check to me. Just be hospitable and let it go. Keep going.

Meanwhile, my daughter who is a professional musician released a piece of music - a song - out to the world. A flower for the cosmos, a beautiful, generous act without expectation of anything in return. Create, release, move on.

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#3 · 31/05/2025, 2:08 am

Can you share the song to listen?

#4 · 31/05/2025, 2:29 am

Hey, sure thing...here's the link to my daughter's song : )

https://maggiealley.bandcamp.com/track/live-or-give-or-die

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