BRING ME THE RIOT IN YOUR HEART

“Bring me your suffering.
The rattle roar of broken bones.

Bring me the riot in your heart.
Angry, wild and raw.

Bring it all.

I am not afraid of the dark.”
― Mia Hollow

This wild and whole group of veterans courageously answered the call for their 12-Day rite of passage and initiation into True Identity, Purpose, and Belonging after military service. By diving into their own wilderness to lay down what no longer serves they have crossed the threshold into who they have always been called to be but haven’t been yet.

Char (USN)

Brad (USMC)

Twan (Army)

Mark (Army)

Bishop (Army)

Rocco (Army)

Danny (Army)

Dylan (USAF)

It is so. You and the land will never be the same. You are the best of what it means to be a whole human and a veteran. Keep submitting to your own myth. Everything else is a lie.

Welcome Home Dragons of the Scablands.

Catch four and half minutes of Veteran Badassery at the 12-Day Fall 2023 Rite of Return in the Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington, featuring the epic photographic mirror by John Crary and the frequency minded music by Listening to Smile.

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