This is the title of one of Alice Walkers books published in 2010. It seems really relevant today.
I’ve seen her quoted, several times in the past few days by women I’ve worked with whom I respect and love.
The same quote
We are the ones we have been waiting for
Alice walker
So I’ve gone looking for her wisdom to listen more and further my own.
This interview from 10 years ago @ Google is a great listen, Alice Walkers voice is beautiful and her wisdom soul warming.
I Have Married
© 2020 by Alice Walker
I have married
Nature
My first Love
And we
Are happy.
At the last
Dying
Letting go
Nothing
Between us.
Trying to find an independent or secondhand bookshop that I can purchase this book. Or someone whom I can lend it from, swap a book or whom might gift it to me if they are finished with it.
If you have a copy you’d part with let me know.
I recognise the gathering of women, the sharing of stories, the sharing of movement, embodied practice of healing. I miss this type of collective. Being physically in a room of women that share and create something special together. I miss that in our Covid world, I miss that from my creative social research practice and I miss that from my life right now.
For me I yearn for the kinda dancing we used to practice at Funky Seomera.
Last year my lockdown release valve was to go out to our shed and dance my socks of. Yes I danced like no one was watching, great exercise and lots of fun. It felt a little silly but that’s never stopped me doing anything before!
I need to return to disco’s for one in the shed and dance. Physically shaking of known and unknown wisdom to just move differently. Being in my body, physically and recklessly dancing.
After all that’s what the disco ball gift on Christmas day was about.
Roisin Markham 
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