#sollife in comerío, puerto rico

With the Sol Col­lec­tive team in Com­erío this morning. 

You know when you get to be part of some­thing so big that it makes you feel microscopic? 

That part.

To­day we were in­vit­ed to paint. 

The in­spi­ra­tion. I don’t even have words. 

The love is overwhelming. 

Over­whelm­ing­ly blessed to be in­vit­ed to be part of such a close knit, strong com­mu­ni­ty. Lov­ing and learning.

Just ate the best meal we’ve had on the is­land at this farm. 

Hel­la full. Hel­la love. Just. Hella.

Work hard. Play hard. Pad­dle hard. 

Can’t un­der­state the love to our fear­less leader @Estrellahood and her vi­sion 13 years ago with Sol Col­lec­tive for shin­ing such a bright light around the globe and al­low­ing some ran­do who was try­ing to get his life to­geth­er into the cir­cle 9 years ago and see­ing what I couldn’t see in my­self at that time.

You can see the wa­ter line from where Hur­ri­cane Maria hit.

Yes­ter­day was trash cleanup along a beau­ti­ful riv­er in Com­erío af­ter learn­ing about their self sus­tain­ing agri­cul­tur­al sys­tems. We col­lect­ed al­most 20 bags of trash. 

“When we take care of na­ture she takes care of us.”

Af­ter spend­ing some time to­day with the Puer­to Rico fam, I’ve been re­flect­ing on a con­ver­sa­tion I’ve been hav­ing in a few dif­fer­ent cir­cles for awhile now.

I live in Sacramento’s Oak Park neigh­bor­hood right off MLK by the com­mu­ni­ty cen­ter.

Every day I ride my bike/walk down that strip. Some­times I talk to Dr. King on the ride. Every time my heart breaks a lit­tle be­cause of the trash (in­clud­ing hy­po­der­mic nee­dles) on the street, and es­pe­cial­ly in front of the com­mu­ni­ty cen­ter. I’ve had this con­ver­sa­tion enough and I’m done talking.

When I get back, Sol Col­lec­tive and the ZFG camp are go­ing to be or­ga­niz­ing a com­mu­ni­ty cleanup ef­fort to love on the street named af­ter Dr. King and all of our amaz­ing neigh­bors, es­pe­cial­ly around the com­mu­ni­ty cen­ter where our kids play.

If you would like to be in­volved in the ef­fort please email me at An­dru [at] SolCollective.org with your name, email, and a phone num­ber and I will add you to the vol­un­teer list for when this hap­pens. We will make a FB event, promote/recruit, and every­thing once all the de­tails are fig­ured out. The hope is that we can start there and branch out to con­tin­ue beau­ti­fy­ing all of our communities.

I know I’m not the first to have this idea or do this work. There is a lega­cy of in­spir­ing ac­tivism in the neigh­bor­hood that stretch­es back for decades.

But as a re­cent ar­rival who has fall­en in love with the Oak Park com­mu­ni­ty, I just feel the call to help push these ef­forts along. 

Shoutout to every­one who has been out here do­ing the work for years. All in­sight and wis­dom from the el­ders, busi­ness own­ers, and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers with deep­er roots than I is ap­pre­ci­at­ed. All neg­a­tive at­ti­tudes, blame, and over­all ap­a­thy just not wel­come as long as I’m concerned.

“When we take care of na­ture she takes care of us.”

Just be­cause it’s paved over doesn’t make it any less true. Eter­nal­ly grate­ful to the com­mu­ni­ty of Com­erío for their inspiration.

Let’s go.

Dam what a view. 

Pure love and high­est vibration.

#Sol­Life #Puer­toRi­co
 

—an­dru defeye

Flom­mist An­dru De­f­eye is the Guer­ril­la Poet Lau­re­ate of Sacra­men­to. Copy­right © 2018 An­dru Defeye.

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