The Summer Sun
Light we give and receive
I started this summer off trapped deep within the trenches of a huge life pivot.
It was a time that required all of my creative energy and focus. So that I could handle the more mundane tasks of life and create the soil for more magic to grow.
I've made it through that portal and successfully landed within the flow of a new timeline. One that feels ripe with opportunity and aligned with the dreams in my heart.
I'm blessed in the fact that the work I get to do in my 3D life is fulfilling and similar to what I would want to do in a world without the need for titles and direct deposits.
I'm stepping into a point in my life where I can see that the work I want done to build a better world is now firmly in my hands.
I see other people of my age group stepping into these roles too. Within families, workplaces, startups, community building.
We are no longer at the age where we can outsource these tasks to the adults in the room.
Sitting around complaining about the world we have been handed is for those younger than us.
We are the very much the adults.
It's our job now to look around, use our lived experience of all we have been through and start building bridges that can get us all through these coming years of change.
Don't worry this post isn't a call to action.
It is a proclamation of noticing. A love letter to the millennial generation.
I see you out there being the person you wish you had at earlier points in your life.
I understand all the work you have put in to building yourself into the kind of person who can hold it all together, offer space, and help nourish the roots of a more beautiful world.
I am sometimes reminded that this work we do is not for us.
We are planting the seeds for trees whose shade we may never get to sit in. Yet by planting them we are leaving a softer, kinder world for those yet to come.
We are the generation raised on instant gratification.
The ME generation we were once titled by the media.
Spoiled brats raised on a cartoon network, microwavable snacks, plastic coated, neon bright, synthetic childhood.
They said we would never be anything but a burden. Born to consume and extract in a 21st century technofascist world. We were raised on the slop of an empire at its final peek before the slow burning collapse of an old world.
They didn't expect us to reach for something more. To get sick of a life of fleeting highs, dopamine rushes, cyclical terror control tactics, and convenience culture.
We were supposed to stay exhausted. To be the Baby Boomers 2.0
To give up our long term goals in favor of what makes us feel good now.
The design was flawless. The poison sweet. The distractions are convincing. The race impossible to beat.
We could have easily continued to run like hamsters on the wheel that powers the capitalist machinery.
Yet everywhere I look I see people my age pulling away.
Divesting from the system.
In little steps. But those little steps are starting to create big change.
These changes are hard to see because the algorithm doesn’t give them any traction. They offer no ROI for the silicon valley bots to see.
So they are happening in the cracks of our day to day lives. Through the way we communicate. The way we show up. The way we nice the needs around us and combine efforts to fill in the gaps of support.
The most beautiful part is we are showing up in our own new way, some thing beautifully unique to the lived experiences of our generation.
It's a new way of community for those of us raised in cultures that taught us support is a labor to extract not a hand to hold.
We are learning and shifting and moving toward something author and activist adrienne maree brown would compare to a murmuration.
“Starlings’ murmuration consists of a flock moving in sync with one another, engaging in clear, consistent communication and exhibiting collective leadership and deep, deep trust. Every individual bird focuses attention on their seven closest neighbors and thus manage a larger flock cohesiveness and synchronicity (and times upwards of over a million birds).”
– Sierra Pickett, quoted in Emergent Strategy, p 67
This collective movement is not perfect, nor is it yet mainstream.
It is an undercurrent feel within the river. Picking up what it needs to distribute and moving hidden deep beneath the surface above.
It is a wave picking up momentum that is destined to bring forth change.
I'm here today to tell you that the work you are doing does not go unnoticed.
The little changes you are making are helping to collectively shift the culture towards one of compassion, harmony and peace.
Yes the world is loud and full of awful things. But is that the world or just the screen in front of your face?
My task for you, if you would like, is simple.
Look up.
Find the people helping.
Listen to the way we are speaking.
Notice the little shifts all around you that are just naturally happening.
Then put your worries down and find the spaces you naturally fit in and fill the gap,
So we can all rise forth together and into a beautiful new life.
Love Always,
Olix
