You Are Where
Not a question. A statement. A fact of being.
I’ve always loved the Rumi quote, “Wherever you are, be the soul of that place,” though I think I hear it differently than others. Where they interpret it as an invitation to extraversion and engagement, I feel it as relationship with where, I am part of place, of ecosystem.
I struggle with the current trend of embodiment, because it feels fake, rushed, predetermined. Em- means to put into. Im- means in. Imbody. It’s already there. I don’t make it be. I bring my awareness to it imbeing.
Wherever I am, I am implace.
I’ve been working on a new creative project and doing so much writing with place-space as Body. We are Here. Be the soul of Place. Body is location. Location is community. Ecosystem is imme. We are Where.
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Meet Kelley
S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div.
Kelley Harrell is an animist, author, deathwalker, and death doula held by Tuscarora, Woccon, and Sissipihaw land. For the last 30 years, through Soul Intent Arts she’s helped others ethically build thriving spiritual paths. Her work is Nature-based, and centers soul tending through the Elder Futhark runes, animism, ancestral tending, and deathwork. She hosts the podcast, What in the Wyrd, and also writes The Weekly Rune as a celebration of the Elder Futhark in season. Work with her in the Runes for Change community or in her intensive soul tending training, The Spirited Path. Full bio.
#beyourcommunity ~ #youareecosystem
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