A Warrior

For my sisters in the midst of making change:

"A warrior is a hunter. She calculates everything. That's control. Once her calculations are over, she acts. She lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push her. No one can make her do things against herself or against her better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and she survives in the best of all possible fashions."

--adapted (by Yin) from Carlos Castaneda

Insist Upon Your Life

“You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die or insist upon your life.” —Odetta

Odetta, the legendary folk singer, died on Tuesday at the age of 77. Her interview for the New York Times' "The Last Word" is a video worth watching. She is a beautiful, strong, wise and elegant woman in the way the Earth herself is beautiful, strong, wise and elegant.