This is a sort of emergency podcast responding to the events of the last week, where we’ve seen yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, an out-and-out murder of a beautiful young man, Alex Pritti.

What we’re witnessing is a great moral battle.

Listen to the full episode as I share an excerpt from my book “The Fifth Sacred Thing,” where Maya tells a story during a ritual of scenes from many years prior, where the old women march out into the street, tear them up, and plant trees in the face of the advancing army.