Reclaiming this body is staking a claim against the patriarchy's war on the wisdom and nurturing and grounding nature of the earth. The earth of yourself.
Living real means recognizing that all of us at one time or another will mess up. We're going to be a part of the conditions that cause hurt for others.
In philosophical terminology, a system that embraces all creation as sacred and divine is called pantheistic, and Eriugena was accused of being a pantheist.
A dragonfly can fly forwards, backwards, up, down, and hover... The dragonfly knows what we learn: the path will never be linear. It isn’t supposed to be.