A Rebel With Cause

Shaping Hope for

Today’s uncertainty

A calling for mixing mediums

as a modern artist layers paint, wax, found rusty objects

Rearranging the strange

As a scientist reveals her data and conclusions with poetry

As the business owner who quietly pivots his profits, measuring success by connections over currency

As the judge honors one’s humanity with restorative processes over confinement

As the dancer moves the energy of protest from anger to active hope

To express the inexpressible…

How to respond with fierce hope, an unyielding love

In a broken world so insistent on

Harming over helping

Punishing over empowering

Fearing over familiarizing

Incorporating over community

How to rebel with cause

To nurture with Nature

Shaping places long untouched in hearts of beholder—the vulnerable hurt child running still

From the wild

What does fierce love

Ask of us yet to surrender to our wholeness—

To co-create with infinity

By mixing all the colors from wherever we stand

From the center of our unique aliveness

We each shape the hope for a better world

May We each live this moment into…

our own days glad

Rebelling with cause

Against oppression of joy

Liberating fierce love

For the cause—

For all to be free