Hāwane Rios Instagram – WHAT WE ALL LONG FOR IS TO RETURN HOME… To return to the ability for us all to know what being Home truly is- where home is a place we feel responsibility to, not just as land we must tend to, but we feel the responsibility to all others who also root there as home. Where our lives are in sacred ecology with all others that live beside us. Where we do not live with more or better than others who share home with us, but where there is mutual care for our home and the home that is each other. As a colon👁️zed child of the diaspora, I have longed to reconnect to my Indigenous roots, so I could feel what it is to be grounded in Home across generational ties- to belong, to be cared for, loved as I care for and love my Home. I am in such deep contemplation of what it means for me to continue be here in the US where I have throughout my aging, been told that if I don’t like it here, I should go back where I come from. I wish it was that easeful of a process, to know home that I can return to. I pray for those who all know their home, may them have the means to live there with and for all those who live and all that makes that Home. Thank you jenanmatari again and again for your deep reflections. They are so important for our spirits to unearth our motivations, our purpose, to fight for liberation beside you and your people and for us to call our people to do the same.