Michael Morrell
@genuinemichael.bsky.social
Opti-mystic writer & futurist, dad of two. Author with Richard Rohr of 'The Divine Dance.' Co-founder, Wild Goose Festival . Curator, TheSpeakeasy.info Read my stuff @ MikeMorrell.org/BonusChapter
From the ashes of what was, something lush and living grows—the Viriditas of God’s greening, the fountain fullness of Spirit’s flow.
Alleluia. Ameen. Shalom and Salaam.
Inshallah. Let it be so.
Alleluia. Ameen. Shalom and Salaam.
Inshallah. Let it be so.
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
From the ashes of what was, something lush and living grows—the Viriditas of God’s greening, the fountain fullness of Spirit’s flow.
Alleluia. Ameen. Shalom and Salaam.
Inshallah. Let it be so.
Alleluia. Ameen. Shalom and Salaam.
Inshallah. Let it be so.
"And a leader unafraid to fight back against rising authoritarianism.”
But tonight’s victory is bigger than one election, one city, one moment. This is a kairos moment—a fullness of time when the ordinary becomes extraordinary, when the widow’s mite multiplies, when five loaves feed the multitudes
But tonight’s victory is bigger than one election, one city, one moment. This is a kairos moment—a fullness of time when the ordinary becomes extraordinary, when the widow’s mite multiplies, when five loaves feed the multitudes
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
"And a leader unafraid to fight back against rising authoritarianism.”
But tonight’s victory is bigger than one election, one city, one moment. This is a kairos moment—a fullness of time when the ordinary becomes extraordinary, when the widow’s mite multiplies, when five loaves feed the multitudes
But tonight’s victory is bigger than one election, one city, one moment. This is a kairos moment—a fullness of time when the ordinary becomes extraordinary, when the widow’s mite multiplies, when five loaves feed the multitudes
The empire says we must compete. The gospel says we must companion one another toward liberation.
In his primary election victory Zohran declared: “Last Tuesday, [our neighbors] spoke in a clear voice, delivering a mandate for an affordable city, a politics of the future..."
In his primary election victory Zohran declared: “Last Tuesday, [our neighbors] spoke in a clear voice, delivering a mandate for an affordable city, a politics of the future..."
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
The empire says we must compete. The gospel says we must companion one another toward liberation.
In his primary election victory Zohran declared: “Last Tuesday, [our neighbors] spoke in a clear voice, delivering a mandate for an affordable city, a politics of the future..."
In his primary election victory Zohran declared: “Last Tuesday, [our neighbors] spoke in a clear voice, delivering a mandate for an affordable city, a politics of the future..."
May this victory ripple outward like the Spirit skipping across the waters of new creation, calling forth new ripples from the void.
The empire insists there is not enough. The prophets know abundance multiplies when we share.
The empire insists there is not enough. The prophets know abundance multiplies when we share.
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
May this victory ripple outward like the Spirit skipping across the waters of new creation, calling forth new ripples from the void.
The empire insists there is not enough. The prophets know abundance multiplies when we share.
The empire insists there is not enough. The prophets know abundance multiplies when we share.
And may the brighter angels of our becoming beckon billions in communities of embodied, tactile joy. This is what Martin Luther King Jr. meant by the “drum major instinct” transformed—not the desire to be first, but the calling to be first in love, first in moral excellence, first in generosity.
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
And may the brighter angels of our becoming beckon billions in communities of embodied, tactile joy. This is what Martin Luther King Jr. meant by the “drum major instinct” transformed—not the desire to be first, but the calling to be first in love, first in moral excellence, first in generosity.
May we emerge in school boards and city councils, in neighborhood associations and mutual aid networks, in every place where people gather to ask: *What if we loved our neighbors as ourselves? What would change?”
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
May we emerge in school boards and city councils, in neighborhood associations and mutual aid networks, in every place where people gather to ask: *What if we loved our neighbors as ourselves? What would change?”
May God protect him in the enormous work ahead.
May the Spirit inspire not just *one* Zohran, but thousands of Zohrans to rise up through the earth like seeds that have been buried in darkness, waiting for their season.
May the Spirit inspire not just *one* Zohran, but thousands of Zohrans to rise up through the earth like seeds that have been buried in darkness, waiting for their season.
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
May God protect him in the enormous work ahead.
May the Spirit inspire not just *one* Zohran, but thousands of Zohrans to rise up through the earth like seeds that have been buried in darkness, waiting for their season.
May the Spirit inspire not just *one* Zohran, but thousands of Zohrans to rise up through the earth like seeds that have been buried in darkness, waiting for their season.
Before he was an assemblyman, he was a housing counselor preventing foreclosures, sitting with immigrant homeowners in Queens losing everything , bearing witness to the violence of extractive economy. He learned the housing crisis is not natural—it is a *choice*. And now, NYC has chosen differently.
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Before he was an assemblyman, he was a housing counselor preventing foreclosures, sitting with immigrant homeowners in Queens losing everything , bearing witness to the violence of extractive economy. He learned the housing crisis is not natural—it is a *choice*. And now, NYC has chosen differently.
Gandhi taught us to be the change we wish to see. Zohran’s campaign *embodied* this—not just promising a more affordable city, but *organizing* one into being, block by block, conversation by conversation, relationship by relationship.
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Gandhi taught us to be the change we wish to see. Zohran’s campaign *embodied* this—not just promising a more affordable city, but *organizing* one into being, block by block, conversation by conversation, relationship by relationship.
This is what it means to be wise as serpents and gentle as doves, wielding power not for domination but for the flourishing of the least of these.
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
This is what it means to be wise as serpents and gentle as doves, wielding power not for domination but for the flourishing of the least of these.
—that dance of solidarity between all people, where those who dream and those who toil are revealed to be one people. This is organizing that begins not with an enemy to defeat, but with Beloved Community to build.
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
—that dance of solidarity between all people, where those who dream and those who toil are revealed to be one people. This is organizing that begins not with an enemy to defeat, but with Beloved Community to build.
"The wall that separates and divides will disappear and we will become one because the sound of the genuine makes the same music.”
And what a symphony they became! 10k+ volunteers, young and first-time voters mobilized not from a place of bitter self-interest, but from “faith-rooted organizing”
And what a symphony they became! 10k+ volunteers, young and first-time voters mobilized not from a place of bitter self-interest, but from “faith-rooted organizing”
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
"The wall that separates and divides will disappear and we will become one because the sound of the genuine makes the same music.”
And what a symphony they became! 10k+ volunteers, young and first-time voters mobilized not from a place of bitter self-interest, but from “faith-rooted organizing”
And what a symphony they became! 10k+ volunteers, young and first-time voters mobilized not from a place of bitter self-interest, but from “faith-rooted organizing”
“If I hear the sound of the genuine in me, and if you hear the sound of the genuine in you, it is possible for me to go down in me and come up in you. So that when I look at myself through your eyes having made that pilgrimage, I see in me what you see in me..."
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
“If I hear the sound of the genuine in me, and if you hear the sound of the genuine in you, it is possible for me to go down in me and come up in you. So that when I look at myself through your eyes having made that pilgrimage, I see in me what you see in me..."
This victory sounds a fresh octave in the moral universe’s song of restorative justice. Zohran’s platform—fare-free buses, stabilized housing costs, city-owned grocery stores, universal childcare—echoes the conviction Howard Thurman whispered to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee:
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
This victory sounds a fresh octave in the moral universe’s song of restorative justice. Zohran’s platform—fare-free buses, stabilized housing costs, city-owned grocery stores, universal childcare—echoes the conviction Howard Thurman whispered to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee:
Zohran Mamdani, at 34, defeated the old guard to become New York City’s mayor-elect and in doing so, thousands of everyday New Yorkers remembered that another world is not only possible—it is *inevitable* when we organize with faith and fierce love.
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Zohran Mamdani, at 34, defeated the old guard to become New York City’s mayor-elect and in doing so, thousands of everyday New Yorkers remembered that another world is not only possible—it is *inevitable* when we organize with faith and fierce love.
Crying tears of relief that Zohran has won!
And so have we.
In a world of dialing-it-in political plodding, prophetic imagination is breaking through—a refusal to accept empire’s dystopian narrative that nothing can change, that the market is god, that scarcity must script our futures.
And so have we.
In a world of dialing-it-in political plodding, prophetic imagination is breaking through—a refusal to accept empire’s dystopian narrative that nothing can change, that the market is god, that scarcity must script our futures.
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Crying tears of relief that Zohran has won!
And so have we.
In a world of dialing-it-in political plodding, prophetic imagination is breaking through—a refusal to accept empire’s dystopian narrative that nothing can change, that the market is god, that scarcity must script our futures.
And so have we.
In a world of dialing-it-in political plodding, prophetic imagination is breaking through—a refusal to accept empire’s dystopian narrative that nothing can change, that the market is god, that scarcity must script our futures.
This and House Speaker Mike Johnson refusing the swearing-in of Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva to prevent a House vote on the release of the Epstein files, yep.
October 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This and House Speaker Mike Johnson refusing the swearing-in of Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva to prevent a House vote on the release of the Epstein files, yep.
Here's to another year of conscious labor and intentional living. Here's to the friction that makes us real.
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Here's to another year of conscious labor and intentional living. Here's to the friction that makes us real.
We're awake enough to notice the gap between our automatic patterns and our aspirations. That gap, that friction, is where transformation happens.
On this birthday, I'm grateful.
Grateful for another year, yes.
On this birthday, I'm grateful.
Grateful for another year, yes.
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
We're awake enough to notice the gap between our automatic patterns and our aspirations. That gap, that friction, is where transformation happens.
On this birthday, I'm grateful.
Grateful for another year, yes.
On this birthday, I'm grateful.
Grateful for another year, yes.
The resistance we encounter—in our bodies, in our relationships, in our attempts to show up differently in the world—isn't evidence we're doing it wrong.
It's evidence we're doing it at all.
It's evidence we're doing it at all.
October 31, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The resistance we encounter—in our bodies, in our relationships, in our attempts to show up differently in the world—isn't evidence we're doing it wrong.
It's evidence we're doing it at all.
It's evidence we're doing it at all.
Just as my body's irritation guides me toward the movements that will heal and strengthen me, life's friction shows us where our work is.
October 31, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Just as my body's irritation guides me toward the movements that will heal and strengthen me, life's friction shows us where our work is.
"One needs fire," Gurdjieff told his students. "Without fire, there will never be anything. This fire is suffering, voluntary suffering, without which it is impossible to create anything."
October 31, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"One needs fire," Gurdjieff told his students. "Without fire, there will never be anything. This fire is suffering, voluntary suffering, without which it is impossible to create anything."
Gurdjieff observed that humans live in a kind of waking sleep, moving mechanically through life without genuine consciousness. And crucially, he believed that only through friction—through the deliberate struggle between our automatic patterns and our conscious intention—could we actually wake up.
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Gurdjieff observed that humans live in a kind of waking sleep, moving mechanically through life without genuine consciousness. And crucially, he believed that only through friction—through the deliberate struggle between our automatic patterns and our conscious intention—could we actually wake up.
So what is the most empowered way to practice both acceptance and change-making, in our physical and social bodies alike?
What if struggle, inertia, injury and resistance can be a feature, and not a bug?
What if struggle, inertia, injury and resistance can be a feature, and not a bug?
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
So what is the most empowered way to practice both acceptance and change-making, in our physical and social bodies alike?
What if struggle, inertia, injury and resistance can be a feature, and not a bug?
What if struggle, inertia, injury and resistance can be a feature, and not a bug?
So much distrust, so much inhumanity, such outright disintegration is happening all around us. It's all so much for our hearts and bodies to bear.
I live by Ram Dass’ insight: "The world is perfect as it is—including my desire to change it."
I live by Ram Dass’ insight: "The world is perfect as it is—including my desire to change it."
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 AM
So much distrust, so much inhumanity, such outright disintegration is happening all around us. It's all so much for our hearts and bodies to bear.
I live by Ram Dass’ insight: "The world is perfect as it is—including my desire to change it."
I live by Ram Dass’ insight: "The world is perfect as it is—including my desire to change it."