The 21st Century Urban {American} experience of
parenting has been deemed an intra-perilous, highly-surveillance’d route to raising
children. Tirelessly, many strive toward
a balanced, full-circled, mindfully (hu)man existence for themselves and their
seedlings – regardless of having an ounce of je ne sais quoi – which seems like the legend of mystical renegades {in my
pro-personal-view}.
Because surely those of urban-descent {past, present, and
future} must transcend from the invisible teachings that anchor a hard-knocked existence
and damaging homestead practices. We, the parents of urban baselines, must become
highly sensitive to centuries of mental-malarkey – and feverishly fight to
oversee the nuances of clandestine policy, alongside subtle twists and turns that
contour emotionality/personality. And even though we’ve been endowed to raise
tender-minds into pro-personal minds of solidarity; we rarely do. Why is this? And how shall we begin to
overthrow such invisible atrocity? Well,
I haven’t pulled all the why-components to form a clear and complete answer
{there’s an awful lot to cover}. But
I’do have an idea. If we must...and yes,
we must...become the executive-producers of homesteads that serve as social,
emotional, intellectual, spiritual, musically-inclined, visually-play(full) and
soulfully-savvy incubators, libraries, and resource-centrals {regardless if
it’s formation: singleton, coupled or mix-matched}.
Also, it’s imperative that we strive into our courage and build
a regenerating willingness to journey into the tender-limits of our own hearts
to manifest balanced infusions of Temet
Nosce {to know thy Self}. And recognize the immanent importance of standing
as one of the examples of ‘much-better’. And yet, so many {Urban} parents are genuinely
unfamiliar with the clues and cues that would lead them into better relations
with themselves, and with those that they’ve been deemed to raise {because
surely parenting is not a totalitarian/dictatorship!} ... There are
inherent-vibes that must be nurtured.
The uninhibited maturity of such vibes {with properly fed esteem} ought
to safe-keep us from self-sabotaging fears, aid in the contouring of whole(some)
self-concepts, and reveal INTRA-solidarity thru an individual’s alchemy-of-time:
patience, process, and progress. Within
this internal effervescence; one shall also cultivate the qualities of efficient
decision-making...which is quite foreign and often considered an eccentric
style of living; as rendered through the mind’s eye of an impoverished urban-american
homestead.
It’s suggested that in order for one to establish its own,
personal alchemy-of-time – one must become sensitive to the unfolding of its
mind {and revealing of its heart}; through time. It must also sharpen its awareness to be able
to identify the arrival of certain messages/messengers, intel, and
lessons/teachings; as well as be able to decipher them. Absorb them. Process them. Then circle-back and teach
them. And even possibly revise/re-create
them.
