This week, we're waiting, dripping, and melting into lake-mind... and getting cute bangs anyway because we're alive, and it's another May beneath the Flower Moon. It's the LAST WEEK of our annual Reparations Fundraiser! Risa's prescription this week is a song called Love and War by Thelma Plum: gentle, moving, croony pop with the rooted resilience of an ancestral storyline behind it from the longest continuous human culture on Earth. Thelma Plum is Gamilaraay; an award-winning singer-songwriter; and daughter of lore-man Paul Winanga-li Gii Spearim. The line from Thelma Plum that spoke up like a mantra this week is: There's writing on the walls, but they can't read it There's writing on the walls, but they can't read it Hold up your chin. Lichen are writing stories on the rocks around us, there's a story being told by the trees, the water, the rain, and by our own ruffled movements. Not everything is being told by the largely white men who dominate the news cycle. A great deal is happening on many, many, many interconnected layers of systems. And we might only hear these loud, angry war stories. But there are love stories too all around us, all over the walls. So hold up your chin, it's there even if they can't read it. Hold up your chin. We're gonna move through this part together. This week also marks the anniversary of Tina Turner's death, and she was and is such a force. (Here is the Rx. from the week she died ❤️‍🩹.) To honour her life and her passing, Amy prescribes the "so poignant, and so funky" Working Together: Unless we get together, the world would never survive And the hopes of the world will surely, surely die People like you and me to speak up for what is right Only then will the world see the light Working together, we can make a change Working together, we can help better things So let us put our hate aside and let us let love be our guide I say let's try little love for a change Let's try a little love! Listen while you read through the list of orgs our coven has made Reparations Donations to so far! (at the bottom of this page! They are SO INCREDIBLE.) Listen while you scrounge up your $10 and make your own reparation donation to the org of your choice! Feel the ritual sacrifice and the song lift the weight of your burdens: we are working together!! If you don't have the $ this month to donate, please listen to the song and imagine us all, with all our different abilities, wrapping you in love and easing the path in front of you. Imagine us covering the path ahead of you in petals even, why not? It's the Flower Moon, let's BLOOM. www.missingwitches.com/rx52/ https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2024/