{"id":5710,"date":"2025-12-31T23:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/?page_id=5710"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:54:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/?page_id=5710","title":{"rendered":"TEARS RETURNING TO THE EARTH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\" id=\"inspiro-is-a-digital-product-agency-that-focuses-on-strategy-and-design\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:100\">Before tears were pathologized, before crying was disciplined or privatized, <strong>tears were understood as return.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Human bodies are composed primarily of <strong>salt water<\/strong>\u2014the same mineral composition as ancient oceans. Our blood, our lymph, our tears carry the memory of seas older than continents. <strong>To cry is not to leak weakness.<\/strong> It is to <strong>cycle water back to the earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"inspiro-is-a-digital-product-agency-that-focuses-on-strategy-and-design\">Tears fall downward. They obey gravity. They return what the body has held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-0e47273b wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#\"><strong>WATER, SALT, AND MEMORY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#7a7a7a\">Salt preserves.<br>Water remembers. It connects all life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In many Indigenous cosmologies, water is not inert matter\u2014it is <strong>ancestor, witness, carrier of story<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tears are saline because they are not only emotional. They are <strong>biological memory release<\/strong>\u2014electrochemical, relational, ecological.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When tears touch soil, they do not disappear.<br>They <strong>re-enter the cycle<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>evaporating<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>condensing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>returning as rain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>feeding roots<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>moving through rivers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#7a7a7a\">Grief has always known how to move.<br>It is coloniality that interrupted the flow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#\"><strong>COLONIALITY AND THE INTERRUPTION OF FEELING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#7a7a7a\">Colonial systems required <strong>emotional suppression<\/strong> to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enslavement.<br>Land theft.<br>Forced migration.<br>Gender violence.<br>Religious conversion.<br>Border-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These systems could not function if people remained emotionally connected\u2014<br>to land,<br>to each other,<br>to their own bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So coloniality trained nervous systems into:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>dissociation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>emotional numbing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>hypervigilance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>containment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>silence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Crying became dangerous.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#7a7a7a\">Not because it was weak\u2014<br>but because it <strong>revealed harm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#\"><strong>THE RETURN OF TEARS AS RESISTANCE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#7a7a7a\">When tears return, something reopens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crying rehydrates what was desiccated by domination.<br>It re-links body to earth.<br>It restores rhythm to systems forced into freeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lloronequis names this return.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not as regression.<br>Not as collapse.<br>But as <strong>re-membering<\/strong>\u2014<br>the body recalling how to belong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#7a7a7a\">Tears soften soil hardened by violence.<br>They loosen what has been held too long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\" id=\"inspiro-is-a-digital-product-agency-that-focuses-on-strategy-and-desig\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>WHY THIS MATTERS NOW<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">We live in an era of emotional exhaustion, burnout, and numbness<br>because coloniality taught bodies to survive without metabolizing pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Lloronequis does not ask us to feel everything at once.<br>It asks us to <strong>restore flow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"inspiro-is-a-digital-product-agency-that-focuses-on-strategy-and-desig\">To let water move again.<br>To let grief finish its cycle.<br>To allow the nervous system to remember safety through connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AS A COLONIAL SITE<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Coloniality does not live only in law or land.<br>It lives in the <strong>body\u2019s reflexes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Generations were taught:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; do not feel too much<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; do not show pain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; do not grieve publicly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; do not let tears gather others<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">This forced the nervous system into chronic suppression\u2014<br>a state of survival without resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Disconnection from emotion was not accidental.<\/strong><br>It was strategic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">A numbed body is easier to control.<br>A disconnected body is easier to displace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"padding-top:50px;padding-right:50px;padding-bottom:50px;padding-left:50px;min-height:316px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-black-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-0e47273b wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:20px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8c644e61 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/themes\/inspiro\/assets\/images\/laurel_left.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.354), 18px);line-height:1\">Lloronequis holds tears as <strong>earthwork<\/strong>\u2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/themes\/inspiro\/assets\/images\/laurel_right.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:20px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8c644e61 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/themes\/inspiro\/assets\/images\/laurel_left.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.354), 18px);line-height:1\">Lloronequis as an active part of living\u2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/themes\/inspiro\/assets\/images\/laurel_right.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:20px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8c644e61 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/themes\/inspiro\/assets\/images\/laurel_left.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.354), 18px);line-height:1\">Lloronequis an ethical act of restoration\u2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/themes\/inspiro\/assets\/images\/laurel_right.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before tears were pathologized, before crying was disciplined or privatized, tears were understood as return. Human bodies are composed primarily of salt water\u2014the same mineral composition as ancient oceans. Our blood, our lymph, our tears carry the memory of seas older than continents. To cry is not to leak weakness. It is to cycle water &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/?page_id=5710\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TEARS RETURNING TO THE EARTH&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5707,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inspiro_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5710","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-300x198.jpg",300,198,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL.jpg",768,506,false],"large":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-1024x674.jpg",950,625,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-1536x1011.jpg",1536,1011,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL.jpg",2000,1317,false],"inspiro-featured-image":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL.jpg",2000,1317,false],"inspiro-loop":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-950x320.jpg",950,320,true],"inspiro-loop@2x":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-1900x640.jpg",1900,640,true],"portfolio_item-thumbnail":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"portfolio_item-thumbnail@2x":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-1200x800.jpg",1200,800,true],"portfolio_item-masonry":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-600x395.jpg",600,395,true],"portfolio_item-masonry@2x":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-1200x790.jpg",1200,790,true],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_cinema":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-800x335.jpg",800,335,true],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_portrait":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-600x900.jpg",600,900,true],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_portrait@2x":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-1200x1317.jpg",1200,1317,true],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_square":["https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StockSnap_M6D1GS9PSL-800x800.jpg",800,800,true]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5710"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5790,"href":"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5710\/revisions\/5790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lloronequis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}