EVERY CULTURE HAS SOUL

Every culture has soul, in as much as it is in tune with its suffering. Soul is the the tempered quality of struggle and possibility. It the cadenced resistance to the myth of inevitability. It’s the cast iron skillet that’s been seasoned by time and heat. It’s the strong ankles from her salsa dancing in high heels. It’s the amplified syncopated kick drum, the beating heart of perseverance. It’s the tomato sauce cryptically transmitted by grandmothers. It’s felt and tasted. We know it through the synapses and flashes that send us. Every culture has soul, if we pay attention to life at the bottom.