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magic in the mundane
poet.playwright.naturalist.
ethnographer of Afro-Chesapeake life 🦀
✨founder @chesapeakehoodoo
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Find your local sacred places. Keep a list. by @hess2love

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*What kind of relationship to land are we actually practicing? by @hess2love

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Autumn is a magical time. The veil thins even more, and you can see the past, present , and future all at once. Many native trees offer you a glimpse of the beginning before they decide to cycle once again. If you pay close attention, you can see the love in advance.

You ever harvest seeds from an Eastern Redbud?

Futurism. by @hess2love

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It wasn’t easy. We were knuckin’ and buckin’ on behalf of this here. 😅

And those who came before us had it harder: Arthur Flowers, Renée Stout, Dr. Yvonne Chireau, Dr. Katrina Hazzard-Donald, and many others.

And those who came before them had it harder still. We stand stacked upon one another, each generation with its own machete in hand, cutting back the overgrowth and clearing the roads so that all of us can see the beauty of Hoodoo.

Many thanks to Mama Rue and the Walking the Dikenga group for tolerating the chaos that is this here internet long enough to install Hoodoo Heritage Month.

Many thanks to the online groups and the creators of those groups who made space for foundational information sharing, dialogue, and cultural development.

Many thanks to the people who took things offline, and the people who were offline waiting for more to share space with them.

Many thanks to us all!

May we have a happy, happy Hoodoo Heritage Month. ✨🧡🦀 by @hess2love

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A note on conjuring:
we should put more respect on the folks who are brave enough to try something new in this reactive, repetitive, hyper-competitive, covetous and dissatisfied world.

Much love to the conjurers who are brave enough to say or do something instead of waiting for a “me too” or “me better” moment. It takes a lot of courage, and a lot of grace. by @hess2love

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I love the way Hoodoo wraps around me, the ways that the things I’m meant to explore keep circling back to meet me. Several years ago my friend Amber told me about David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous, and that shaped my curiosity about the sensorial, which I brought into my understanding, which (among other things) led me to becoming a Master Naturalist, which opened conversations about consciousness and eventually led me to Julian Jaynes’ VERY contested book. Today I found the notebook I kept while reading him, one of my living notebooks scattered around the house, full of questions and connections I still want to come back to (last slide).

I’m so grateful to the ancestors who were expanders and made room for us to think about more than just survival.

This Hoodoo Heritage Month I’m especially grateful to those road openers (personal and collective), the ancestors who survived slavery, Jim Crow, and the so-called “war on drugs” and kept making a way because they knew more of us could come through. In a season when people are losing jobs and funding and being accused of not having thoughts of their own (let alone writing them down), they remind us there has always been space for our thinking.

Note: I know Jaynes’ bicameral mind theory is largely rejected by researchers today, and I’m not saying he got it right, but his questions stirred something in me.

Yes, I find myself also reading problematic researchers of various fields because I find myself curious about their limits, while simultaneously tickled by the ways our indigenous cosmologies already pushed through those limits thousands of years ago. by @hess2love

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Is antiBlackness an ecological sin? by @hess2love

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Second slide is the flip side of “every shut eye ain’t sleep.” by @hess2love

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The academy—at best—is an archive. Even then, it is lopsided. by @hess2love

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I was flooded with thoughts about my own K-12 public school experience before I could even finish Nikole Hannah-Jones's article about her decision to put her daughter in a predominantly Black school rather than a predominantly white one, and about what that choice has meant for her daughter and her family in its aftermath. by @hess2love

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