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These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherNorth Atlantic Books
- Publication dateNovember 14, 2017
- File size1675 KB
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- ASIN : B06X3TLQWJ
- Publisher : North Atlantic Books (November 14, 2017)
- Publication date : November 14, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 1675 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 335 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #725,758 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #352 in Women's Personal Spiritual Growth
- #627 in Spiritual Healing
- #1,137 in Parenting Girls
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About the author
Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.) considers his most sacred work to be learning how to be with his daughter and son, Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden - and their mother, his wife and "life-nectar", Ijeoma. "To learn the importance of insignificance" is the way he frames a desire to reacquaint himself with a world that is irretrievably entangled, preposterously alive and completely partial. Bayo was born in 1983 into a Christian home, and to Yoruba parents in western Nigeria. Losing his diplomat father to a sudden heart complication, Bayo became a reclusive teenager, seeking to get to the "heart of the matter" as a response to his painful loss. He sought to apply himself to the extremes of his social conditioning, his faith, and his eventual training as a clinical psychologist - only to find that something else beyond articulation was tugging at his sleeves, wanting to be noticed. After meeting with traditional healers as part of his quest to understand trauma, mental wellbeing and healing in new ways, his deep questions and concerns for decolonized landscapes congealed into a life devoted to exploring the nuances of a "magical" world "too promiscuous to fit neatly into our fondest notions of it." A lecturer, speaker, and proud diaper-changer, Bayo curates an earth-wide project for the re-calibration of our ability to respond to civilizational crisis - a project framed within a feminist ethos and inspired by indigenous cosmologies. He considers this a shared art - exploring the edges of the intelligible, dancing with posthumanist ideas, dabbling in the mysteries of quantum mechanics and the liberating sermon of an ecofeminism text, and talking with others about how to host a festival of radical silence on a street in London - and part of his inner struggle to regain a sense of rootedness to his community. In short, Bayo has given up his longing for the "end-time" and is learning to live in the "mean time". In the middle, where we must live with confusion and make do with partial answers. His greatest vocation is however learning to be a satellite orbiting his greatest gift, his goddess Ijeoma, and knowing the blessings of her gravity. He speaks and teaches about his experiences around the world, and then returns to his adopted home in Chennai, India - "where the occasional whiff of cow dung dancing in the air is another invitation to explore the vitality of a world that is never still and always surprising."
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In a profound way this claim about the middle challenges our embrace of fairy tales that begin, "Once Upon A Time..." as if we can begin at the start of something where there was and is no earlier moment. The middle is not a place of moderation or sell-out, but rather a profound place of becoming, of 'worlding' ourselves, of being 'grown-ups' who embrace the past as something yet to fully become in this moment. If you are interested in how we might decommission or decolonize Whiteness this idea of the middle has profound implications and this book is an essential read. Akomolafe demands a deep responsibility and accountability that embeds 'being humans', to quote the Civil Rights activist Ruby Sales, into this earth in which we are entangled. He embodies the work of Karen Barad and Donna Haraway, David Abram, Jeff Carreira, James Baldwin and other such marvelous writers in what is truly a unique expression of talent. Get this book, get two, and share with a friend. It is demanding, a chapter a day is what you can do, but in one week you will have read the most important book of 2018.
poetry, history (both personal and global) without ever losing its central personality. It is a rare feat, in my reading experience. Perhaps it
is possible here because it is coming from someone with so much experience and knowledge who also is writing motivated by the love of his child and family. Whatever direction he takes you in you are still feeling that love while gaining new insight. It is also refreshing to see a person of his education and pedigree leave room for the mystical, for the unknown. At the book's finish, which in a sense also feels like a beginning, I reacted as I would having been given access to an old treasure in a library or finding a brother I had been separated from who greeted me first with music, then words. It is that kind of practical, special and lyrical experience.
Bayo Akomolafe is clearly a modern–postmodern genius and mystic, master storyteller, and sacred activist. He is inviting us to individually and collectively face challenging realities head-on...but certainly NOT in the usual way we have been summoned by other modern activisms.
This is a ground-breaking, inspiring, new kind of call to action and way of being and relating to the (human and non-human) world and the crisis we face today and it gives me hope for the future (~present). This is a book that needs to be read by all of us "moderns" and studied and integrated as a powerful way forward together as we embark on our much-needed collective healing journey.
Bayo invites us to open ourselves up to new places of power, to practice dwelling in the midst of our modern catastrophe, to seak the edges, and practice being alert and present in the "thick" discomfort as we develop the skills of curiosity about the paths we might embark on as we meet the universe halfway and begin to recognize and honor that there are other ways of being in relationship to...everything.
This is a must-read for anyone interested in engaging in meaningful activisms in these challenging times. It is for all those who long to leave a legacy of love and healing, tenderness, and care for many generations to come. This book is for those who want to disrupt the status quo, decolonize, and dismantle structures that are de-humanizing, disembodying, and anthropocentric. It is for anyone longing for a new way of being in the world, anyone longing to belong, anyone longing to finally come home to the majesty that is inherent in this one wondrous and tragic life.
This is a must-read!