📖 October Book Club | All About Love by bell hooks

This month, as we sit with the theme The Dead Are Not Gone: Shadow Work Through the Bloodline, our book club is stepping into bell hooks’ All About Love.

Why this book, why now? Because grief, silence, and ancestral weight are all love stories—complicated, fractured, sometimes hidden under generations of unspoken truths. When hooks writes, “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” she’s reminding us that love isn’t just memory, it’s movement. It’s what we do with what we’ve inherited.

This first week isn’t about chapters or page counts—it’s about orientation. About opening the door to both the altar and the text, and letting silence speak before we rush to interpret.

🔮 Book Club Intention for Week 1:

• Sit with your ancestor altar in stillness.

• Ask yourself: What silences live in my bloodline?

• Let hooks’ framing of love as action be your compass as we move into this month.

We’ll begin the reading next week, but for now, we’re just opening the door—breathing with the silence, honoring that our ancestors’ grief and our capacity to love are threads of the same fabric.