"To love means not merely to (re)territorialize like an animal but also to take root like a plant."

from Oxana Timofeeva, How To Love A Homeland

Collectively, we assume that there is a lot of life in motion and a finale in stillness. I agree to count motion as a part of life, an irrevocable one. It is more common for one to leave their home than to stay these days. Yet, in this world migration is frequently death, not by its nature, but because of the structures that are in place to oppose migration violently. 

I am repotting this plant and thinking of taking roots and if the opposite - losing your roots is possible as well. Thinking of how one loves a homeland and how one loves at all. Trying to discern the difference between loving from above and loving without hierarchies. 

Hixon Foster wrote music that stemmed from our collective, but also their own understanding of stages of life and directions that are available. We were doing our best to listen to this plant, as it remains to be as alive as Hixon, and I, and all of us. We were asking the plant how we can love in the same way it does.