Are You a Snowdrop?
March 20, 2025
I learned something fun about snowdrops during an Instagram Scroll today. I haven’t found sharing IG links in my blog format to be very successful, so I wrote down what intrigued me from the video text. A man from @walkwilduk, gave 3 fascinating points about the late winter flower, Snowdrops.
Snowdrops, he informed, are packed full of magic. Firstly, they are built to survive the winter landscape. They generate their own heat. The flower creates warmth by an in-built process called Thermogenesis. They actually melt the snow around them. (See photo)
Secondly, they have a built in antifreeze. Their antifreeze proteins help them survive even in cold snowy conditions. And third, in a manner of speaking, they predict the weather. They open and close in response to temperature, so you can watch them to anticipate the weather.
“Snowdrops,” I thought while watching the short video, “make an interesting metaphor for the task at hand.“ We too are full of magic, we have a special inner processes for generating warmth and hope around us. It involves opening the human heart.
Many things cause jolts of concern these days. Jolts that can cause our minds to scatter and our hearts to contract. Every time this happens, we need only open our hearts again. Opening our hearts again to generate our radiant inner warmth.
By following any personal contraction with a heart opening, we create a rhythm of opening and closing, opening and closing. This rhythm causes a movement forward rather than falling back. It’s like the piston action of an engine. By doing this simple opening after each jolt, we carry our lives forward and affirm that spring is actually on the way.
Hold the faith, dear ones, hold the faith, being of strong mind and open heart,
And feel the love, always,
💜 💛 Mayet
You Have A Bounded Space
March 13, 2025
Article highlights:
- What’s in your bounded space?
- How does it shape you?
During an episode of the PBS program, Craft in America – Viola Cordova, philosopher, poet and painter and member of the Jicarilla Apache tribe- spoke of a concept she referred to as Bounded Space – a view innate within most Native American tribes.
“Bounded Space is the natural territory surrounding one”, she explains, “the area defined by rivers, mountains, deserts, forests or oceans. You have a relationship with everything within that Bounded space – the animals, the plants, the people. Your relationship with that space determines your language, it determines your spirituality, it determines your concept of self, it determines your aesthetics and it determines what you will make.”
There are many reasons it benefits us to deeply understand this philosophy as Viola Cordova expressed it, I’m sure you can think of several implications of this that enrich your own life. However, there is one reason in particular that I mention it here.
The statement points to the natural world as the formative world. So the core of this wisdom can only be realized in our own life if we have a strong relationship to the natural world around us and have become deeply imprinted by it.
If our primary relationship with the world is mental, then it is our thoughts that become our bounded space. If our thought space is relative to the manufactured world of human affairs – such as politics, religion, beliefs and opinions – then we have no steady ground, no wise view, no innate understandings from which to fashion our individual and shared worlds.
What are your bounded spaces? What are you most in relationship with? Is it the constancy of natural spaces, the beauty and peace that is there? It is difficult to build a solid life in our uncertain times without being anchored to a stabile and beautiful bounded space.
Viola’s words speak deeply to me and have brought me to deep reflection about the material from which I fashion my day. What is my bounded space? This is something good to muse upon.
Lovingly,
X ♥️ Mayet
PS – Further information about Viola Cordova, for those who would like to know more:
Viola F. Cordova, October 20, 1937 – November 2, 2002
Bounded Space – a concept presented by Apache philosopher Viola Cordova, Philosopher, poet and painter.
Viola was the first native American woman to complete a Ph.D in philosophy.
I have very much enjoyed her posthumously completed book: How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of Viola F. Cordova. Among the many wonderful insights from the book is her statement, when speaking of the role of the artist, “The artist is a healer bringing us into harmony when we might have fallen away.”
She was a member of the Jicarilla Apache tribe.
How Generative Are You? Understanding Your Generative Nature
March 6, 2025
Article highlights:
- Moving beyond sustainability
- Are you a generator?
In 1999, Wisdom began “talking” to me about the Principle of Generativity vs sustainability. I had a water non-profit at the time and found this an intriguing and very important idea. I was so excited about it that I tried to share it in the environmental area.
People weren’t interested. Some were even oddly hostile. It seemed they feared that the idea of being generative would divert people from understanding the urgent necessity of becoming sustainable.
I was surprised at the time, but in retrospect I think they were perhaps right. It was an idea a little ahead of it its time, as many things are that Spirit dialogues with me about. However, I feel it is now an idea whose time has come. At least for persons such as ourselves who are familiar with energy and how it works in us and in our lives.
We have at least some understanding of ourselves as being part of what sources our own lives. We’ve often talked about that as “manifesting”. Especially manifesting stuff. I think most of us have explored and discovered the limitations of that idea and are ready to move beyond it.
There is a much more expansive understanding. Which is to think of ourselves as having a generative nature and to ask, “How Generative Am I?” That’s a question that opens a wonderful realm for self-growth and exploration.
Importantly now, our Generative Nature is coming on line like never before. Because of that, I’d love to begin exploring it here together from time to time.
To start, here are a few thoughts about Generativity. It’ll be fun to see where you take it. So, as always, feel free to reply to this emailed article or directly mail me with thoughts, questions and your experience as we go along.
Generate — Generative — Generativity
* Reciprocity is one of the keys to the Generative Nature. So is receiving. The earth gives and all creatures and all life forms both receive and give back.
* Sustainability is generally relative to growth and decline. So, for instance, a business that is generative plans for cycles of pause and even decline rather than cannibalistic continuous growth.
- A generative system is also self-sustaining. It’s built into the system. Being sustainable is the stewardship portion of the Generative Nature, respecting and caring for our many resources.
- Generativity moves us from surviving to thriving.
- We don’t currently have a truly generative form of energy. Oil, gas, electric… they all require tremendous energy and resources to create the energy they produce. Even wind and water energies currently require enormous tracks of land and other costly resources. And our generators need energy to create energy.
- Could it be that our energy sources are at best barely sustainable because we don’t yet understand ourselves as part of the Generative Nature of life?
- For instance, am I the lightbulb or am I also the source of the light that lights the bulb? If I am both, what does that mean to my ability to generate a better life and world? Not to manifest it, rather to generate it.
- What will happen when humans discover themselves to also be a source of energy? Truly generative energy will be discovered. That is beginning to happen in me, in you, and in our world.
- Generativity is quantum. What is happening in me – regarding my generative nature – will move the world forward. And what is happening in the world, moves me forward. It’s quantum in that way.
Generative. A powerful principle to move into our individual and group consciousness now.
How Generative are you? How can you tap more into your Generative Nature? What does that mean? What does it feel like, look like? How does that work?
How is our generative nature intended to express? What does it look like in your business? In your relationship? In your thoughts and actions?
How do you tap into your Generative Nature?
These are delicious questions. With wonderful answers. Time to dig in to this amazing banquet… something wonderful to muse on and to noodle into our lives in whatever ways occur to us.
There are far more generative times ahead, dear generator, and we are a big part of that!
Hugs,
Mayet