Like Words Together Reflections from the deep end of Practice.

Freedom

Some things my students named this morning when I asked them to share what freedom meant to them:

• Choices
• Love
• Inclusive/Including & Responsibility
• Movement
• Breathe
• Good sense to live a life of service to others
• Lightness, ease, & abundance

I then asked them to notice how related all these things are. Then we considered how each thing on the list is not a fixed point.

If we stop attending to our abundance we no longer have abundance.

In this way we began to unpack the wise words of Angela Davis, that freedom is a constant struggle.

I spent much of the rest of the day trying not to feel enraged at every shriek of group laughter from the neighbor's. It's 01:05 and I just heard another firework.

I loathe the Fourth of July with a passion this year especially.