Mantra: "I am who I am doing what I came to do"

Yesterday we communed with Pat Parker and today we are calling on her sister comrade Audre Lorde.  Audre Lorde lives right now in so many arenas (including the football arena where an NFL coach quoted her some years back on the occasion of welcoming the first out gay NFL player onto the field). Her life and example have inspired so many of us to break our contracts with silence and to cultivate and embrace what she calls “the creative power of difference.” Our mantra for today comes from my favorite essay by Lorde “Eye to Eye: Black Women Hatred and Anger” where she not only asserts that “We can learn to mother ourselves,” but also says “I am who I am doing what I came to do, acting on you like a drug or a chisel, showing you your me-ness as I discover you in myself.  Profound interdependence fueled by clarity of purpose.  So today as we repeat “I am who I am doing what I came to do,” remember that our purpose is not singular but beautifully entangled with all beings.  In this moment as the way you do your work or your relationship to work has shifted, remember your deeper purpose and act accordingly.