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Checking In: Staying Open to Change
“Our minds are intricate. Our desires are complex. We are gorgeously contradictory in our epistemologies. We were not invented yesterday.” — Kathleen Collins
Currently, I have been going through my first Saturn return, which for those of you who are not privy, is when this particular planet returns to its original position that it occupied the day you were born. In short, it has been a doozy. So much of what I thought I knew about myself is either unraveling, expanding, or both. Some days, when I speak my thoughts aloud, I feel as though I’m not making sense, and then I beat myself up out of fear of incoherency. But then I realize that this is all a part of my making.
Kathleen Collins was a multihyphenate artist: a poet, essayist, filmmaker, fiction writer. Her film Losing Ground was one of the first films created by a Black woman. Though she died at the age of 46, her work is having a resurgence as the general public learns more about the complexities of Black women’s lives.
ZORA fam, how many times have you revisited a stance or opinion you believed of yourself or the world only to find out that it wasn’t the case? Were you afraid? Shocked? Invigorated? Renewed? Whatever the case may be, it’s all good. We’re all good. We don’t have to always make sense. We don’t always have to search for conclusions. Sometimes our individual trials are where we find the most beauty.
Tell me, how are you making space for beauty to emerge in your life? #ZORACheckIn
