Last week’s T-UU-sday session was a conversation about our monthly theme, liberation. We read a poem together and explored the question “What does it mean to be free?” Since I know you can’t all make it on Tuesday evenings, I’m using my post this week to invite you all into the conversation. Our poem and questions from Tuesday night’s session are below. Feel free to comment with your thoughts!

Autobiography of Eve

Wearing nothing but snakeskin

boots, I blazed a footpath, the first

radical road out of that old kingdom

toward a new unknown.

When I came to those great flaming gates

of burning gold,

I stood alone in terror at the threshold

between Paradise and Earth.

There I heard a mysterious echo:

my own voice

singing to me from across the forbidden

side. I shook awake—

at once alive in a blaze of green fire.

Let it be known: I did not fall from grace.

I leapt

to freedom.

— Ansel Elkins

 

Questions for reflection:

• What does it mean to be free?
• Think of a time you have leapt to freedom. What was it like? What did you gain? What did you lose?
• What is the role of community in freedom?

I look forward to hearing your thoughts!

Blessings,

Allison