Ain't I a Woman?"
- Sojourner Truth
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A life without compassion is a night sky empty of moonlight and starlight. It sits heavy and mortal on the soul, a burden to the world. Flood your heart with a deep, boundless caring. It will raise you up from melancholy into a bright plateau of union. You will feel like your own daylight, and joy's breeze will stay.
Jaiya John
Daughter Drink This Water
A Book of Sacred Love
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True warriors don’t make war. They make peace. Especially inside the soul.
Jaiya John
Daughter Drink This Water
A Book of Sacred Love
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You aren't fruit to be picked. You
are the orchard. Live abundantly.
Jaiya John
Daughter Drink This Water
A Book of Sacred Love
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They told her to be tame and timid.
So she danced until wild things joined her.
Jaiya John
Daughter Drink This Water
A Book of Sacred Love
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Daughter. Spend your life Loving. Not seeking Love. Ocean need not seek water. You are already water, precious daughter. You are whole. Live beautifully, as whole things do. If you chase Love, you will lose it. You can only have Love by being Love. It is a flame. You must be a flame. See how fire behaves with its heat. Then you will know how to be with Love. Be so fragrant with Love that the honeybees will not leave you alone, and a million flower blossoms know your name. A flame lives in your soul that can give the whole world a fever. Make us sick.
Jaiya John
Daughter Drink This Water
A Book of Sacred Love
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Daughter, I am going to tell you a secret: You are the best thing that ever happened to you. Love yourself this deeply. When you feel this and know this, you will be free.
Jaiya John
Daughter Drink This Water
A Book of Sacred Love
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This world can erode girls, strip away their foundation of self Love. The act is gradual, can be inviting. One day, you naturally feed yourself what feels good to your soul. Another day, you find yourself as a woman so far out to sea you cannot see your soul. To be well as a woman is to choose continuous resistance to this subtle erosion. Persistent whole-keeping. Many want to break you down, fraction you up. Turn you into parts. Stay whole. Surround yourself with wholeness and whole-keepers. Make your freedom sing.
You are everything.
Jaiya John
Daughter Drink This Water
A Book of Sacred Love
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Why live your life as though you are a patch of air when you are the entire sky? You are a continent. Don’t live like a crumb. Be boundless. Don’t shrink. Bloom. Don’t ask. You exist. That is your permission.
Jaiya John
Daughter Drink This Water
A Book of Sacred Love
2024 LUNA VORTEX ARTIST IN RESIDENCE.
MARCH 9 TICKETS.
My heart is honored and excited to be the first artist in residence for the Luna Vortex, a healing space to reclaim our ancestral wisdom and creativity, under every phase of the Moon.
Throughout this 2024 residency, I will be offering monthly poetry reading ceremonies and book collection signings, and maybe some creative writing playshops as well.
The Luna Vortex is a studio located in Los Angeles, California, birthed into being by the luminous Luna herself. You may visit her website through the button below.
MARCH 9 TICKETS AND DETAILS:
I will be reading from Daughter Drink This Water in celebration of Women's History Month and Women's Day.
A NOTE FROM LUNA VORTEX:
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JAIYA JOHN'S
THE GATHERING.
A WORLD TOUR.
a poetry reading ceremony and
book collection sales and signing
I am excited to join you in your community to read from my collection of published and unpublished work, bringing to life the spirit of the medicine words. I say reading, though incantation and prayer are truer. Thematically, these readings are on collective freedom, and take on the flavor of each audience from gathering to gathering. A rich weaving of cultural fabric. These gatherings are remembrance songs, bringing us back to our Indigenous ancestral ways of gathering and being together. As this tour is part of my global Soul Water Rising rehumanizing mission, we stir the soul to remember itself as we garden our collective liberation and the end of oppressive systems and ways of life.
I am also honored to include, at some of the gatherings, live Sacred Conversations with revolutionary souls who inspire me. During these gatherings, I also commune with the audience in questions and conversation. And we build into this healing experience what we are calling Aftercare. Before the afterparty, and after the reading, we care for each other as I make myself available for sacred listening, tears and laughter, sacred embraces, selfies, and book collection signing.
And as a part of Soul Water Rising's Book Angel Project, whether or not you attend a particular gathering, you have the opportunity to purchase books that we then gift to vulnerable souls with whom we gather along the tour.
The Gathering is a people's freedom movement. The tour is happening in cafés, libraries, prisons, hospitals, shelters, community centers, women's centers, campuses, HBCU's, Indigenous reservations, art galleries, art studios, museums, parks, amphitheaters, auditoriums, theaters, and stadiums. Call us to North and West Africa, the Levantine, Southeast Asia, South and Central America, the Caribbean, and beyond. We go where we are called.
You play an organic role in this. If you desire for the tour to come your way, email us through our tour page at jaiyajohn.com. You can help us identify aligned venues, communities, and audiences.
Tour dates and locations are announced on a rolling calendar as sites are secured. This tour is a culmination, crystallizing, and new season of my life's journey, work, and calling. I am awed and enchanted to read for you and embrace you in a healing way.
We will see each other soon, in Love, at The Gathering.
Big Love,
Jaiya
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My books are available at booksellers worldwide and directly from the author at jaiyajohn.com (eBooks are exclusively at my site). Thank you for posting your copies, readings, and creative images and videos, and for sharing online reviews. It all breathes life into a book's life. I hope you will gift these books to your people.
Also at jaiyajohn.com, enjoy my books, eBooks, audiobooks, talks, sleep stories, and piano music. I also offer creative writing support phone sessions, keynote speaking, talks, and book/poetry readings.
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