Joy Harjo — The Hope Portal Ep. 6
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17 min
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2 min
AI-Generated Summary
Key Takeaways
- ✓The Two Hundred Year Present: Calculate from the oldest person who held you to the youngest you've held and their projected lifespan to tangibly experience a two hundred year span your life touches.
- ✓Whole Time vs Linear Time: Move beyond Newtonian clocks and deadlines into cyclical, generational time where past, present, and future interact simultaneously, enabling perspective that justice unfolds across seven generations or more.
- ✓Children as Hope's Rudder: Viewing all children as our collective responsibility creates obligation to future generations, making hope not abstract but embodied in tangible relationships that extend beyond individual lifetimes and immediate circumstances.
What It Covers
Joy Harjo, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Muskogee Creek Nation member, teaches how living in the whole of time enables hope across seven generations despite historical trauma.
Key Questions Answered
- •The Two Hundred Year Present: Calculate from the oldest person who held you to the youngest you've held and their projected lifespan to tangibly experience a two hundred year span your life touches.
- •Whole Time vs Linear Time: Move beyond Newtonian clocks and deadlines into cyclical, generational time where past, present, and future interact simultaneously, enabling perspective that justice unfolds across seven generations or more.
- •Children as Hope's Rudder: Viewing all children as our collective responsibility creates obligation to future generations, making hope not abstract but embodied in tangible relationships that extend beyond individual lifetimes and immediate circumstances.
Notable Moment
Harjo's grandmother learned saxophone in early nineteen hundreds after forced removal, creating musical lineage that transforms heartache into flight through breath drawn from earth's center across generations.
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