The Rise In Love Foundation

07/26/2025

She Who Walks with Wings

She walks beneath the ancient sun,
not casting a shadow,
but carrying light
woven from the songs of her grandmothers.

Her cloak—no cloth,
but wings of the Monarch,
soft like prayer,
strong like memory.

Around her, the butterflies rise,
as if the ancestors remembered
the way back home—
through her breath, through her step.

She does not fly.
She becomes the flight.
And in the silence,
the land remembers her name.

🎨: Serin Alar

07/24/2025

“Never say you love someone if you have never seen their anger, their bad habits, their absurd beliefs and their contradictions. Everyone can love a sunset and joy, only a few are capable of loving chaos and decay.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

[ Art • “For Love” by Cho Gi-Seok ]

07/23/2025

The heart is capable of sacrifice.
So is the va**na.
The heart is able to forgive and repair.
It can change it's shape to let us in.
It can expand to let us out.
So can the va**na.
It can ache for us
and stretch for us,
die for us
and bleed and bleed us
into this difficult, wondrous world.

I was there in the room.
I remember.

~ V ( formerly Eve Ensler), excerpt from “I Was There in the Room,” The Va**na Monologues

Note: This monologue was written by Eve Ensler after witnessing her daughter give birth.

Art: Medha Srivastava
Medha Srivastavavi

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07/22/2025

07/22/2025

While Trump demands we bring back mascots like “Redskins” and “Indians,” we can’t help but notice the timing.

The same week renewed attention was building around Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to powerful men, the headlines shifted so fast. Why?

It’s because culture wars are the perfect distraction. They generate outrage and rally a political base.

The mascot issue is serious, but while we’re dragged back into this exhausting debate, Indigenous women, girls, and relatives are still going missing. Our families are still waiting for justice. The MMIP crisis doesn’t get billion-dollar stadium deals or national coverage. It gets silence. Deflection. Gaslighting.

Don’t fall for the distraction. Stay focused. Stay loud. Our people deserve more than headlines, we deserve justice.

07/19/2025

Reborn Everyday with gratitude
- eloybida.com

07/11/2025

Choose Love
Choose healing

07/09/2025

The secret of life is not about knowing what to say or do. It’s not about doing love or loss right. Life cannot be handled. The secret is simply to show up. It’s about witnessing it all, even the pain, and letting it touch you and make you not harder, but more tender. Showing up, feeling it all — this is my new kind of prayer. I call it praying attention, and it’s how, for me, everything turns holy.
~ Glennon Doyle

Image: Prayer Offering by Vianney Lopez

07/04/2025

A Hidatsa woman named Waheenee, born around 1839, made it her life’s goal to keep her tribe’s old farming traditions alive. 🌱
Between 1907 and 1918, she shared her deep knowledge of planting, cooking, and daily life with a researcher.
In 1917, this knowledge was published in a book called *Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden*, helping to protect a way of life that was slowly disappearing.

She wasn’t the only one doing this important work.
Around the same time, an ethnologist named Frances Densmore traveled across the U.S. with a wax cylinder recorder.
She recorded over 2,000 songs from many Native American tribes, saving their music forever. 📖

In Connecticut, a Mohegan woman named Gladys Tantaquidgeon spent her life writing down traditional medicine and healing practices.
Her careful work not only saved Mohegan culture but also helped her tribe gain federal recognition in 1994.

These women knew how valuable their heritage was.
They worked hard to make sure future generations could understand and connect with their history.
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