The big bang
Was a heartbeat
Of the Divine
It is still beating
Its rhythm
Flowing
Squeezing us out
Into existence
Like the womb
Squeezes out the babe
Explosive
Life and death
The shimmer and the shadow in the void
Patterned
In motion
Free
But always tethered
To that point
Of shadow and shimmer
Even as the heart
Beats out new worlds
Flowing all around us
Flowing from us
Ba bum
Ba bum
Can you feel it?
Sound from silence
Matter from ether
Motion from stillness
This is home
I come from it
I return to it
With each explosion
Of the Divine heart
Each beat
Of my heart
Over
And
Over
I am reborn
From that point
Where the heart
Of the Divine
Beats in my chest
Kalia Lydgate
Kalia is a cultural creative interested in building new models that make the old obsolete. In 2007, Kalia co-authored the first-in-the-nation legislation to fund green jobs training programs in Massachusetts. From 2009-2012, she co-led a green jobs program in New Bedford, MA that developed innovative, whole-systems solutions for environmental, economic and social justice challenges. During that time, she served as a Mayoral Fellow for the City of New Bedford, where she developed partnerships between the city, the local utility company and grassroots organizations to increase access to livable-wage jobs in the Green Economy. Kalia has developed environmental and climate justice curriculum for a number of after school and summer programs using hip hop and creative expression to teach and engage young people. For the past five years, she has been immersed in sustainable agriculture and alternative economies at the local level. Since 2013, she has worked with the Olohana Foundation to restore traditional Hawaiian agroforestry practices as part of a climate adaptation and food security strategy.
