28. Love Anniversaries & Loveship Milestones

It's our half-birthday—our podcast's 6 month anniversary!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:01

Hi, Alexis.

SPEAKER_00 0:03

Hi, Shango Dare.

SPEAKER_01 0:04

So usually we have a technology for you from our journey and our teachers with North Stars. But on today, we are excited to remind you that we just passed the week of our podcast's half birthday.

SPEAKER_00 0:22

Wanna say happy half birthday to the podcast? To the podcast. So, yeah, it's the half birthday of our anniversary, therefore the half birthday of the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

Yeah, and so we don't have a new new new whole full episode on tonight. Um, but we're here in Durham, here in Durham at the Observable Universe Creative Space, recording our live podcast episode here in Durham as a sort of celebration.

SPEAKER_00 0:51

Yes, and we wanted to pause at the top of this gathering to remind you, dear listener, and you, dear live audience of community and friends and chosen family, why we started this journey, why we started this podcast in the first place. So, Shanghold Dari, tell them why did we start this podcast?

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Well, we wanted to celebrate our anniversary, like I said was last year now, by giving or by making a contribution. But more than that, and maybe a little bit selfishly on my part, I want, we want more love ship community. Even more couple community, to be honest, even if folks ain't relating as spiritual practices. Like we we could talk about that later. Let's have more couple community, at least as a start.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

Yeah, and we but we want to have a shared language, a shared context, some shared values, build trust, build accountability, build a community of people who relate to all their relationships as spiritual practice, but especially romantic and familial relationships, so that we don't have to be isolated and we can just have more community to be in it together with.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

Yeah, and that's we, Shangdore and Alexis, but also the collective we. I think um anniversaries and celebrations are the perfect time to be vulnerable, to make an offering and or receive an offering.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

But it's always good to be generous.

SPEAKER_01 2:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

Right.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

Really, I think of birthdays. Really, I think of birthdays as a time to receive and half birthdays as a time that we give gifts. But of course, generosity is always good. That's right. So we are giving you the gift of letting you know, though it will always be September in this love ship. This podcast recording will likely have a shelf life of one year. We intend to move this work into the more intimate space of peer support and destination retreats.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

The destination often being Durham and Anguilla.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. I have a vision that we can create a culture through our lovebirds and love ships work where we really do become a flock, where childcare and education are a community project, where healthcare, even the haunting, unyielding, relationship destabilizing question, Ron. Of what, what, what we gonna eat? What we gonna eat for dinner, lunch.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

The haunting question of our lives.

SPEAKER_01 3:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

Um, yeah, but that could be resolved for good. Yeah, it could be resolved for good. And the problem with poverty. Okay, this is a hyphen. So where did I start? That we can have so that we can have sustainable systems as a salve for these things that come up in our relationships, our families, our community.

SPEAKER_00 4:14

Sustain sustainability with the levels of intimacy and trust that sustainability actually requires. If that sounds like something you're into, keep listening.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

Yes, because what if love as sustainability is the true meaning of September?

SPEAKER_00 4:32

The twenty-first night of September.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Well, that's what we have for you.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

So until next time, farewell.