I'm watching these communities be like there's not a truth.

Yeah. I have mine and I know you have yours and we are going to keep walking

another step together with both of these truths or all of these truths walking with us.

Set your wine glass briefly down.

Stand. stand and feet about hip width apart.

Here we can just set it down.

You want to hold it?

Yeah, I want to capture it.

So feet about hip width apart and let your shoulders drop, let your arms fall down to the

side of the body.

We're just going to be in the body.

The body is where writing happens, right?

We just write with our bodies, our minds, ourselves.

And if you're sucking in your tummy, you're sucking in your butt,

or anything like that, just like relax, let it go. you have the body you have, sucking it is not going to change.

Okay?

And all of the work is in the lineage of Octavia Butler, who was a

visionary fiction, like we think of her as like one of the first people

really writing visionary fiction. And so she offered us these words and so if everyone will close her eyes, drop in your own little solar system, and repeat after me.

All that you touch, you change.

All that you touch you touch you change.

All that you change changes you.

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