Beandrea Davis’s womanifesto
you are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. —Desiderata
I have a right to...
feel healthy in mind, body, and spirit
say no and mean no
say yes and mean yes
change my mind whenever it becomes appropriate to my awareness and my needs
welcome people who affirm my greatness and their own
distance my self from people who require that I shrink or distort myself in any way in order to be with them
live boldly, freely with gusto and sometimes, with fear
express my truth without imposing it unwillfully upon others
experience joy and lovingkindness
to dance to the music of silence
to stillness in the midst of chaos
to feel my own innate OKness radiate through my being
to lie down with my face nestled into the soft surface beneath me and feel
to clap and sing and cry, separately or all at the same time
to accept these rights as my Divine birthright, to wrap them around me like a shawl all my days on the Earth
to change, to evolve, to grow without straining to expand without brute force
I have a right to be large, as large as the universe created me to be.
May all beings walk the Earth with an inherent sense of their own rightness, their own unique footing, with grace and mercy in the palm of their hands.
aum ohm ashe so be it amen it is all good natem kher...
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