Possible

Maricielo Ampudia Gutiérrez (responder)

What is possible? Imagine
with me. Breathe
in through your nose
out through your mouth
regular breaths       just regular breaths and notice
points of contact
you and your surroundings. Listen
with me. What is there? And imagine
what is possible.

I am grateful to hear birds chirping
freedom dreaming just like that
in the trees. I am grateful
my mother’s voice and laughter
reach me. I am learning
to love what I have
and to love what I can
create. The acknowledgement,
a moment to cherish
life, its entirely and then
reach for what is possible.

Notice thoughts,
notice points of creation.
Focus in
body pressing
your surroundings.
The feeling of weight
of body creating space
in harmony with the world,
the sounds, smells, the feeling.

There is nothing but what you
create with mind
and hands so create, create
with me, create I
again. Isn’t it amazing
we can feel. Emotions run
through our bodies
feel them rise and fall
with our breath. Isn’t it amazing
we feel love, its branches reaching
up and letting go
in blossoms. While its roots
deep into Earth
hold on and together
survive. Love builds and
re-builds itself, everlasting
again.

And we start again
over and over, until
it’s possible.
Nothing can burn me
completely. Watch me
come back and every time
I do, I create with love
for what is possible. I hold on.
I hold on. I hold on
breathing again.

Dreaming Otherwise

Jessica Kallista (caller)

“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.”
 —Raoul Vaneigem

“Prioritizing ourselves in love is a political strategy, is survival.”   
—Adrienne Maree Brown       

 
“There are Otherwise ways to think temporality. There are Otherwise ways to think the concept of fleshly reality. The Otherwise, as the elaboration of the alternative, presumes that radically different relations have and do already exist.”
—Ashon Crawley

Joy, love, bliss, and freedom dreaming are revolutionary acts that allow us to create the world in which we want to live and thrive. In order to dismantle current structures of oppression we must lay claim to the everyday moments of our lives and demand that they are filled with joy, love, bliss, and the freedom dreams that will birth a new structures of liberation into existence. Rooted in the belief that what we practice we become, Dreaming Otherwise disrupts the passive nihilism intrinsic in many of our everyday lives by envisioning an intentional, active, manifestation-oriented pursuit of revolutionary everyday joy, love, and bliss through meditation, play and freedom dreaming. Dreaming Otherwise celebrates our powerful capacity to engage with the imagination through spell casting, communion with our ancestors, meditation, music, light, laughter, community, and pleasure.