Reclaiming Voice

The Deepest of the Deep

1. Loss of Voice

   1. there is a Taoist saying: the sage does not have a mind of his own and takes the mind of the people as his own.

   2. this seems somewhat at odds with the Native American tradition where it is as sacrilegious to voice-over someone as it is to allow yourself to be voiced-over.

   3. let’s attempt to resolve this.

2. Reclaiming Voice by Breaking Silences

   “The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.”
   - Audre Lorde

3. Reclaiming Voice by Calling Out the Silence of “Good People”

   We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
   – Martin Luther King

4. Reclaiming by Voicing the Deepest of the Deep

   what gives the dark its most benevolent sheen?
             i) the gift of the most becoming, ii) the beginning of 
                the most beguiling, or iii) the revelation 
   
   of the littlest granulet of light that thrums through
            inward seeking nights, etched through membranes
            tiresome but nevertheless the most beautiful?