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# shaping time with desire
- URL: https://kolamcreativecollective.com/posts/shaping-time-with-desire/
- Published: 2025-08-22T14:11:25.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-22T16:04:11.000Z
- Author: Kadir
- Tags: Blog

Hello friends,

I am in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal this week taking time to retreat, rest and hang out with a fav childhood friend who is here for a conference.

I have been writing more love poetry. Pablo Neruda's Love Poems, a travel bilingual edition came on this trip with me. I watched a movie where a character quoted this collection. I'm also reading Édouard Glissant’s Mahogany, translated from French.

I am excited to be in week three of Thresholds, a 11 week decolonial divinatory literacy group Tarot reading class with Christopher Marmolejo at [The Red Read](https://www.theredread.com/). They wrote Red Tarot, the book that introduced me to their practice. Diving deep into the cards in deep conversation and shared ritual has been enriching and enticing.

I am continuing to get clearer on my upcoming offering for leaders taking a leap towards creative freedom in my 1:1 work with Ayana Zaire Cotton at [Seeda School](https://www.seedaschool.com/). Our last meeting of this container is in a couple of weeks, and I'm so excited for how this offer is shaping up, and to share more about it with y'all!

I am loving how easeful showing up to 'work' conversations for my practice while on 'vacation' has been. The more I open up to my own time's intelligence, I see how my practice can be playful. A ten minute sprint penning poetry on a park bench 🥬🔥 while listening to Erykah Badu makes magic. I put my notebook away and walk to another park to watch birds stare at the shimmering cobalt green pond while I stare at the birds. 

Time bends and flows where desire calls. 

Pablo Neruda's Love Poems beckon me deeper to pine for and lavish my creative desires —" I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love" — [One Hundred Love Sonnets:XVII](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49236/one-hundred-love-sonnets-xvii)

Happy Virgo ♍ season and new Moon in Virgo 🌑 🧹🌱 see you next week!