Your Creative Sparks:
- Often we look at PROBLEMS and think the answer is to throw money at it. But ART can help connect the HEART at a deeper level, where real SOLUTIONS can be discovered.
- IDENTITY can be FLUID. One gets to decide WHO they want to be and WHERE they want to be in the world.
- "HALF PEOPLE" can be the PIONEERS to build a bridge between cultures.
- The ways in which we RELATE to each other can be more important than the things we endeavor to DO for each other.
It's midday in Burkina Faso, and the heat says we can't work anymore. We are responding to the earth, not the clock, to tell us when to take a break. It's a lesson to not force things, but to connect deeply and move the body with the heart. Why not recline on the mats with us?, as Lobsterbird and Miyu Leilani discuss our common suffering, the meaning of identity on personal, global and social levels ~ and what is asked of us as global citizens. Leave us a Rating & Review!
Your Travelogue
- When it comes to humanitarian causes, there seems to be great connections taking place, but often the connection is about financial support. Often people don't know much about what it is they are supporting. They are not deeply connected in the heart. Miyu Leilani wants to change that for Burkina Faso. [8:48]
- Miyu was born in Japan, grew up in Japan, and moved to New York when she was 19. Japan is very "connected" to the United States, and Miyu heard about New York many times. But hearing about New York and living in New York is different. Talking about the United States in Japan vs actually living in the United States is so very different. [14:54]
- "How can people help us if we are not known?" Miyu organized the NyamaNyama International Art Festival to help connect people to the heart of Diébougou in a meaningful way. She wants people to know and love this place first, then together we can figure out what projects are appropriate. [19:00]
- Countries with money have problems. Countries without money have problems. How does cultural exchange actually change anything and help anyone? Why are multiple languages and multiple ethnic backgrounds important or useful? [26:46]
- A visit to City Hall can create a new identity? Discovering her true ethnic background as a "half person" initiated Miyu into a new role as a cultural connector. [38:08]
- Sixty ethnicities exist in burkina faso, living together, sharing the culture, loving each other and sharing the earth. It's super simple. Co-exiting is possible! [41:04]
- Africa was the motherland before tectonic plate activity caused the continents to drift apart. Our different cultures are basically all made up. We all started from the same place and share the same mother. [50:27]
- Doing something new is not new in New York. It's like a tidal pool in that the water is swirling, but it just stays in there. Too much of a good thing means things are suddenly unimportant. In Diébougou, everything is new, and everything feels so big. Each simple thing is a really big deal. [1:00:00]
- Conventional time does not exist here. People don't look at the clock. It's not the numbers they are dealing with every day. They have the time in themselves. They feel the time, loosely. Time here is more about the agriculture. They look at the earth and the sky and the wind, and they live with it. [1:08:30]
- God is different here too. For the Burkinabè, God is not about religion. It's about the whole spirit, the energy, the earth. [1:16:56]
- The local dance and connecting to the earth: even from a very young age, they are taught to have a relationship to the environment, time, rhythm, and their bodies. [1:26:00]
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Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.
Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the Cross Roads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind Sacred Survivor Quest.
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