20/08/2025
Over the past week, myself and 45 other kind and radiant humans did a deep dive in ancestral and cultural repair work in the mountainous jungle of Costa Rica. We gathered for nearly a week on traditional Maleku lands at , a center for applied cultural transition. Their work and vision as a community is really wholesome, culturally mindful, and recommended.
Aside from the co-weaving with thunderstorms, butterflies, macaws, and lush tropical flowers, one highlight for me was learning from and supporting the Costa Ricans in circle. Shares of how much traditional knowledge has been lost through the centuries of exploitative colonialism, Catholicism, capitalism, and white supremacy. Shares of the burden of performing “la pura vida” for outsiders to try to make ends meet in a tourist economy. And also a deep and enduring solidarity and love for the land despite the outside impositions.
We spent days together weaving a safe enough space to turn toward some of the generational pain and, with ancestral support, to invite the dead to truly make their way home. We spent time listening in with the elder forces whose bodies are the land with curiosity about ways to rebuild trust and to live in more Earth-attuned ways. We laughed, cried, made offerings, and brought our specific selves to multicultural community with kindness and cultural honesty.
In one sense, spending a week like this is a tremendous privilege. And to come together in ritual with matters of healing and cultural repair is also ancient, everyday human behavior. This is what we do.
Thanks all who contributed to this convergence. Donations made to , the Maleku community, and a Costa Rican women’s rights/support org. I’m tired upon returning but grateful.
Images from the offering crafted. Next stop (and final one for a bit) is Sarajevo in early October. 🙏🏼❤️🔥💀🌙🌎
