October 8, 2023

 

 

Querido Felipe,

 

Even before I’ve put words to this paper, I already feel nodes of electricity firing. But you know that already. For someone who listens to the in-between, sees the flying rivers, feels the layered depths of human connection, and poetically orchestrates words to summon new realities into being, you already know the life that birthed this letter, and the vitality that will continue to flow from it. For this, I am deeply grateful.

 

I am grateful to have encountered an exquisite spirit in you. And what moves and delights me is that I know and feel your splendor without having physically met you. You and I have been communicating in other ways, in temporalities and spatial dimensions that exceed the limited constructs that unimaginative and ill-intentioned forces attempt to impose. Yet, I believe and am grateful that we have been taking our cues from the “grand designs,” as you call them, of the other-than-human world. Even Zoom could not contain your sparks, your song. My screen could not filter the sweet stories and seditious savoirs you have been weaving over the years, and sedimented in your smile. Upon seeing and hearing you, I know and feel other realities. I am inspired to continue to evolve another ontology, another way of being that demands care, reflects beauty, and sings L – O – V – E over and over at the top of my ethereal lungs, until other beings are absorbed by its ecstatically infectious vibrations, so that they too are transported into radically new and gorgeous realms. Thank you for breathing life into this emergent space, simply by just being! 

 

This is how I know you. I know you as a nimble creature who can astutely lace the rationality of science with the delicacy of kindness, using the available technology of words and social media, to keep others aware of and moving towards a new reality. You are a provocateur of the gentle storm that many of us are thirsty to feel on our naked skins. Just by knowing you, I feel more alive.

 

Can you hear the desire between my words? The clarity crystallizing into a beautiful tapestry of the world we yearn for? Can you feel my arms encircling you with gratitude for the momentum you’ve ignited within me? 

 

Much muchisimas gracias, Felipe for anticipating, conducting, pollinating, strategizing, listening, loving, and being.

 

 

With deep respect, 

Aidyn