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Hello loved ones,
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and welcome to week 4 of the School of Our Lorde's,
Audre Lorde Resurrection Sundays.
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This is a really special week
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because this weekend was the
Brilliance Remastered Guardian Dead
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Retreat for Ancestor - led,
community - accountable intellectuals.
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Two of our sacred texts at the Guardian Dead retreat
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were Melvin Dickson's speech
"I'll Be Somewhere Listening For My Name",
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and Audre Lorde's poem "To A Girl Who Knew
What Side Her Bread Was Buttered On".
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Audre Lorde thought this poem about
the importance of honouring our ancestors
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was so important she published it twice.
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This poem is fairy tale answer
to generations of romantic poets,
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and is an emphasis on why we need
to honour our ancestors
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on a regular, consistent, sustainable basis.
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So our gift to you this week
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is a reading of "To A Girl Who Knew What Side Her Bread Was Buttered On"
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along with the Guardian Dead participants enacting their postures of reverence to their own ancestors.
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What it looks like for them to butter scones
to nurture their ancestral relationships.
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"To A Girl Who Knew
What Side Her Bread Was Buttered On.
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He, through the eyes of the first marauder
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saw her, catch of bright thunder,
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heaping tea and bread for her guardian dead
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crunching the nut-dry words they said
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and, thinking the bones were sleeping,
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he broke through the muffled afternoon
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calling an end to their ritual's tune
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with lightning-like disorder:
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'Leave the bones, Love!
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Come away from these summer breads
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with the flavour of hay—
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your guards can watch the shards of our catch
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warming our bones on some winter's day!'
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Like an ocean of straws
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the old bones rose
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Feeling the lightning's second death;
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there was little time to wonder
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at the silence of bright thunder
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as, with a smile of pity and stealth,
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she buttered fresh scones for her guardian bones
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and they trampled him into the earth."
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Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!
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So! Your assignment for this week
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is to remember what side your bread is buttered on,
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what are your regular practices
to honour your ancestors?
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What are the tempting distractions that come along
trying to drag you away from them?
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If you want to write about that in the comments,
you can;
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if not, no worries.
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And I will share with you the poem that I got
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in our To A Girl Who Knew What Side Her Bread Is Buttered On oracle,
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which is A Poem For The Letter G
___[cannot hear this part]___
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The Poem For The Letter G is
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girl, guardian, guards, guardians.
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And I dedicate this week's video with so much love
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to my fellow participants
in the Guardian Dead retreat,
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and my brilliant co-facilitator
brother doctor Eric Darnell Pritchard.
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If you are interested in finding out more
about Brilliance Remastered
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check us out at
alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/
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And if you would like to have some one on one time,
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explore more of the videos from other weeks,
or get your own oracle poem, go to:
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the School of Our Lorde website which is:
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summerofourlorde.wordpress.com
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And until next time, please remember that...
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[ GROUP SPEAKS ] We are who we are,
doing what we came to do.