Hummingbird Cricket Hour

Luis and Trini touch on why a critical mind and expansive heart are needed today more than ever. Facing the historical shadows embedded in today's social challenges will help usher in new possibilities.

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Luis and Trini consider the importance of grounding and vision in times of social upheaval. Political education is more key than ever. 

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This week Luis and Trini talk about the values of democracy as known and practiced by the First Peoples of the Americas: being responsible and organizing to ensure what is best for everyone and everything, to be regenerative.

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Luis and Trini pose the need to find our center while also questioning long-held ideas about the world we live in. Intensified social and political uncertainty will require us to move creatively even when we think we can't.

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Luis and Trini talk about the need for clear, creative thinking to get beyond the stifling perspectives preventing us from changing our reality.

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Luis and Trini expose the use of culture wars to distract and divide when what we need is to understand our economic and political crisis to unite and solve our common conditions.

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In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, Luis and Trini center the importance of an Indigenous-based paradigm shift to protect our common interests in the face of intensified crisis.

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Luis and Trini highlight tenets of this hemisphere's Indigenous cosmovisions, their attempted destruction by hostile paradigms, and the healing potential of reclaiming the remnants of ancestral understandings for today's world.

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In this episode, Luis and Trini reflect on crisis, whether social or personal, as an invitation to drop old constraints and embrace transformative shifts.

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Luis and Trini revisit abundance. Defining currency as more than money, they explore the value of energy flow, relationships, ideas, character, art, and creativity. 

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Luis and Trini take a closer look at abundance. What do we understand about what it is and how to work with it, versus the misguided "prosperity" narrative?

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In this episode Luis and Trini touch on "change". What does it mean? Why can it be triggering? Is it a natural part of development and alignment?

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Luis and Trini to interview Dr. Anthony Lee Sr., Diné medicine man, Vietnam veteran, and educator during their visit to Lukachukai, AZ on the Navajo Reservation. Dr. Lee expounds on education from an Indigenous lens and much more.

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Luis and Trini grapple with the necessary challenge of attending to both the spiritual and the material aspects of being responsible change-makers in today's world.

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Luis and Trini take the occasion of a naming ceremony to reflect on the value of knowing one's innate energies and developing them fully to best contribute to collective efforts. 

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Luis and Trini explore reasons why people mistrust the electoral system, then discuss why it's important to elect trusted leaders to stretch and transform the possibilities of democracy.

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