The Sacred Reclamation: Bringing light to the shadows

Hello Hedge Schoolers,<br/><br/>Let me begin with a poem to frame our inquiry this week. <br/><br/>Sanctity<br/><br/>No harm done<br/><br/>I'm just viewing <br/><br/>from the shadow<br/><br/>without violence in my heart<br/><br/>But the eye cuts deep <br/><br/>to lacerated<br/><br/>understandings<br/><br/>of what it means to <br/><br/>hold dear the sacred<br/><br/>Lost in confusion<br/><br/>amongst shiny pictures<br/><br/>of postures<br/><br/>I look<br/><br/>with an empty gaze<br/><br/>at a transaction <br/><br/>of violence<br/><br/>that I just can't stop<br/><br/>The desire pulses<br/><br/>in innocence<br/><br/>wrestled from the jaws<br/><br/>of hush-hush business<br/><br/>Manifested perversions<br/><br/>grip with a toxicity<br/><br/>I die to every day <br/><br/>There is love<br/><br/>in the reverence<br/><br/>but death in the execution<br/><br/>Talk to me men<br/><br/>about ways that harness <br/><br/>the purity<br/><br/>That revere with sanctity<br/><br/>the beauty I withhold<br/><br/>Talk to me women<br/><br/>about ways to hold<br/><br/>the feeling<br/><br/>in ways that feel held<br/><br/>Bring the talk to the table <br/><br/>where love is served best<br/><br/>Connection in connection<br/><br/>of deep and beautiful love <br/><br/>Music Acknowledgement<br/><br/>resonance by airtone (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution <br/><br/>Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/61321 <br/><br/>I wrote this poem after a deep journey. A journey that highlighted the hidden. <br/><br/>The repression of what it feels to feel. The passion. The desire. The guilt. The shame. <br/><br/>Growing up in an Irish Catholic family, my introduction to the world of sex was a mix. A mix of my mother diving across the room to turn off the television when a set of boobs came across the screen and my father blushing deeply when we discovered his stash and he had to deliver the birds and bees talk to my brother and me. <br/><br/>Bless. <br/><br/>There was no manual for this when they