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ACam's avatar

Very insightful. I feel much longing in this one. I think we all strive for family, love, and get discouraged when it doesn't happen. But, we keep pushing 'limb by limb'. I wonder why for some it's so hard, and some it's so easy, to find that 'Goldilocks' type of love/relationship where it's not too little or too much; just right.

... Or perhaps relationships are just constant struggle, showered with occasional happiness that makes it all worth it in the end

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Kayleen Hunsaker Smith's avatar

We need to feel pain to grow & sometimes is just seems easier to not feel that pain...

BUT we must feel to have life and that does entail pain in growth!

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Saige's avatar

This resonates. Your words to mine. Like the echo bouncing across the valley and the valley is full of waves that push song to song.

I've been reflecting on the pain that allows for growth. Here while the leaders I did not elect undo the beautiful language of the land, rip down the signs, stamp out Te Reo. And I think about how my mother embraced the language in her teaching, how she taught me that the culture of the land, and living alongside others towards understanding is not a fear-inducing thing.

Yet for many it is, and there have been times when fear of growth caused me to become a kernel again, reaching for darkness instead of light. When I needed to challenge myself and listen to the bigger tug of life pulling life. And then I see it, that light, that pull away from resistance.

That learning edge.

The laboring of pain to forge growth.

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ItcheBrain's avatar

Inspiring and beautiful ✨✨

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Malcolm J McKinney's avatar

Also I am happy I can respond to you now.

A Reflection on Kimbra's Substack

When a Star Dies

It's hard

On us

When a young star

Supernovas

We maybe missed the signs

Or couldn't see

The flash blasts us

with thousands of bits

Of the relationshps we had built

With them

Whether acknowledged or not

The life rays we received from them

Resonated in our souls

Only because our souls

Resonated at the same frequencies

So we all

Have the innate power

To self resonate.

Birds sing to one another

Because they already knew

Some of the melodies

And were able to return the songs,

Or new interpretations,

Breathing them back

Into the air

So become a bird

And sing your notes.

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Malcolm J McKinney's avatar

Life is all movement, stop and shrivel.

Everybody needs a little love

The momma cat

now feeding her kittens

The freezing hand

Looking for the mittens

A famished hunter

and his hungry dog

A river pilot

Wrapped in a fog

A moment's glance

to the heaven above

Everybody

Needs a little love

A late night waiter

wiping the table

A forelorn poet

writing his fable

The thirsty tongue

and the quenching drink

The hard time drunkard

detained in the clink

When a gentle nudge

turns into a shove

Everybody

Needs a little love

The bubbling baby

nestled in the cradle

The strung out cook

stirring soup with a ladle

The wistful song

and the curlicue tune

The quiet night

resting under the moon

The cry of an eagle

And the coo of a dove

Everybody

Needss a little love

No matter if sleeping

on the mattress below

Or having a vision

on the top bunk above

It's painfully obvious

at the tip of the point

Everybody

Needs a little love

Malcolm McKinney 2023

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Kimbra's avatar

Beautiful :)

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Celeste Briefs's avatar

I feel like I'm still waiting for Life to move me. I feel like I've always been waiting for Life to move me, while constantly being taught that I must be the one to move Life. That to be successful I must be proactive, I must create more, I must do more, I must BE more. Far, far easier said than done. I know that Love is still trying to show me that all of that really doesn't matter at the end of the day. That to love is enough to live by. I hope I can learn this in my body and my heart as well as my mind someday.

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