Roses to Remember explores the intersection between memory work and art in the context of San Diego's creative scene. Listen in to find inspiration from local artists who are tapping into memory and honoring their ancestry through their various creative practices. Hosted by artist and community organizer natalia ventura. 

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Ep2: Beatrix Estudillo & Las Cuatro Milpas

Ep. 1: What is Memory Work? with natalia ventura

A long meditative/contemplative recording made from the interior of a cliff-top rock cave facing the Southern Ocean (nothing else other than ocean between here and Antarctica).

This was, for me, a deeply significant meditative/contemplative recording experience. I last visited this place 39 years ago. At that time, I respectfully crawled on my belly through the narrow space beneath one of the largest of the standing rocks. Although I could still have managed that exercise, I preferred, this time, to sit in motionless silence inside the wind and sea-spray carved cave space of another rock facing the turbulent ocean. It was late at night, and although the sky was overcast, the waxing moonlight filtered through the clouds and subtly lit up the entire landscape and seascape. I could even see, quite clearly, inside the cave space itself.

My meditative contemplation was primarily focussed on an all-embracing theme of ancestry and consciousness. These rock formations have evolved and been sculpted by temporal geological forces over far more than 200 million years. Time itself, I have realised, is the only true and permanent 'millionaire'; and its only true and permanent wealth is nothing other than the history of time itself - a precise history of pure incessant impermanence. Remnant carbon deposits on the ceiling of the cave suggest prior human habitation. For still uncertain reasons, archaeological evidence shows that indigenous people ceased living on this island approximately 4000 years ago, even though numerous archaeological sites demonstrate an extended and extensive period of human habitation prior to that time.

The recording was made with a pair of MKH 8020s in AB 34 cm pointing towards the back of the cave and tilted upwards to where the cave's back wall and erosion-scalloped ceiling merge in a smoothly continuous curve, with analogue preamps set to 55 dB. The recording is essentially unprocessed.

Recorded mindfully and respectfully on land and water which, although not indigenously inhabited for some 4000 years, remains to this day of fundamental cultural, spiritual and historical importance to the mainland Ramindjeri, Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna, and Narangga peoples.

The photographs of the recording site were taken the following morning. Nominal location: 36°02'54.0"S 136°45'26.2"E.

2024.12.12 Night Ocean in a Cave. Remarkable Rocks. Kangaroo Island. Early Summer.

An edited speech delivered at Saint Louis Priory School's Chaplaincy about loved ones who are close to us and ones we've never met. From: Coupled: A Memoir in Poetry.

Apparitions In Our Lives

An Ancestors

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Ancestors

Taranaki Mountain, the second-highest peak on New Zealand’s North Island, has been granted legal personhood, giving it the same rights and protections as an individual. This designation, deeply rooted in Māori beliefs, ensures that the mountain and its surrounding peaks are treated with respect, shifting the way natural features are viewed in law. Visitors will be encouraged to self-regulate their activities, learning to honor Taranaki as an ancestor.

Geographically, Taranaki Mounga is one of the world’s most symmetrical volcanic cones, towering over the Taranaki plains. It is also believed to be the country’s most climbed mountain and a major tourist attraction.

Culturally, this decision finalizes a 2016 settlement addressing the Crown’s Treaty of Waitangi breaches, which included financial reparations and an apology for the 19th-century Taranaki wars. Taranaki now joins Te Urewera (2014) and the Whanganui River (2017) as New Zealand’s third natural entity with legal personhood.

What's right: New Zealand gives mountain legal personhood

This excellent panorama of Australian Aboriginal music, with voices and drone-like didgeridoos and an otherworldly Rain Dreaming Ceremony is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/02/australia-australie-aboriginal-music.html

Australian Aboriginal Rain Dreaming Ceremony

We Were Here Before You. Those of Us Who Left, Will Return. We are your Ancestors, Ancestors. We are Here to Help You Ascend and Evolve. We are Your Galactic Family. Your Starbrothers and Starsisters. The Time Has Come.The Divine Masculine, The Divine Feminine, Will Unify and Join Again as ONE. Unity Will Be Restored. A Return to Oneness. The Ebb & Flow of Cosmic Breath, The Beautiful Dance Between Life & Death ~ No More. We Go Forth TOGETHER into a new Dimension, a New Cycle, an Expansion of Life Eternal. Evolve & Ascend Human. Attain Your Lightbody ∞
#ancestors   #progenitor-race #elders #merakimessages #cosmojenasis #ninetruthsonealternative #thetruthisunfoldingtous   Theosophy &Cosmogony

The Progenitor Races

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