all year long i have held you so close to my heart, rocked to my core by the depth of your endurance, of your loss. i have prayed for you daily, sung for you, seen for you, with my third eye, what i also see for myself: access to education, health-care, housing, clean water, sanitation, jobs, and a safe and loving community. oh great spirit that moves in all things!!!! may it be so for haiti and for all humans........ayi bobo!
here we are moving into year number 2 since the catastrophic event of january 12, 2010 occurred. we all know the numbers, know the money hasn't been given, know it's only getting worse.
the question i am asking myself is: what will it take to effect real positive change in Haiti? what is it going to take?
i'm going to take a stab at a strategy and visualize. i invite your input but please be kind because it's only a game: u.s. out of haiti to start with. why do we need to be meddling in someone else's democracy? we say we're going around the world to "restore democracy" - then why in god's name are we taking out democratically elected presidents and banishing them from the country which elected them?
jobs - rebuilding haiti!!!! oh it's so beautiful, all the buildings that will be built, giving haitian carpenters and masons a chance to show off their skills.
ecological sanitation - this one is my personal favorite of course, but think about it - a rebuilt haiti where instead of installing complicated plumbing systems throughout the cities or in the villages, wasting more water which then needs to be treated, and costing lots of money to maintain, there are dry, composting toilets in people's homes, in local schools, churches, at soccer fields and all throughout the country where the wastes are collected and properly treated by trained agronomists until it is safe to be used as fertilizer, and gardens are sprouting up everywhere to feed people and provide more jobs!
cultural revival - haiti begins to shine again more for its cultural richness than for its impoverished condition, and people begin traveling to there to study and learn and to be entertained by the wealth of creative talent, culture, and charm.
for me, it's a matter of principal. in my thinking, human life is valuable. i value human life. and i also value the power of the human mind to affect change. the more i think about it, the more it begins to happen. the more i see my life unfolding before me with a full heart resonating with joy and vibrance, the more i experience joy and vibrance........
and so i ask you all to take a moment now at the end of my little facebook note to think about your vision for haiti, how you see it unfolding, and if you want to you can share your vision with us so we can fill up our hearts with it and energize a group mind of healing for haiti, and for us all who share the very cells of human trauma in our own blood (once again transmitted through the mind and because we are all of this earth, made of star-dust, spinning through space on a single orb very, very quickly)....
(and as for my love story with haiti, i had to post-pone my trip, so will be returning the last week of january for just a few days to get just a little bit more footage for the film. ayiti m' sonje ou e nou we tale'....nou pa bliye ou!!!
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