"Instead of becoming a less habitable place for me, I become a less habitable place for it." Bringing this energy into 2023. Your journey is such inspiration for my own. Beautiful articulation. Love the Baldwin quote.
Mm yes, thank you Christa. Grateful to have your companionship in this journey we are navigating in personal/intimate and shared/collective ways. Baldwin always has the words.
It struck me the most, that what we are to do with the pain, the hurt, the lashing is to find a way to use it to connect. This is a daunting task, yet I see the truth of it. When so often I want to pull away from others because of the pain.
Absolutely. Thank you for this Roddy, I'm on this journey with you. We are heavily conditioned to hide our pain as weakness, as something shameful, as a personal burden to bear... when pain is truly one of the most unifying aspects of the human experience. I've found that vulnerability begins as a practice, made softer by compassion until it eventually becomes so pleasurable it's hard to imagine living without it.
"now, soften that Self and get close to the soul" ~ Thank you for this beautiful, tender piece. I read this before I started back at work today and felt my whole being soften. The idea of "not enough" as a force moving through the collective really struck me. The idea that it's another way to ultimately dull us and keep us (dutifully as you said) serving the system has long enraged me and yet reading this piece I also felt a curiosity and a softening as you explored this force with such compassion and nuance.
Thank you so much for this reflection of shared resonance and reverberation. I'm with you in both the sacred rage and the potent curiosity -- which I appreciate so much about our connection. Grateful for your words, for the depth with which you received this piece, and to continue exploring these questions alongside you. So much to unlearn and reimagine.
"Instead of becoming a less habitable place for me, I become a less habitable place for it." Bringing this energy into 2023. Your journey is such inspiration for my own. Beautiful articulation. Love the Baldwin quote.
Mm yes, thank you Christa. Grateful to have your companionship in this journey we are navigating in personal/intimate and shared/collective ways. Baldwin always has the words.
It struck me the most, that what we are to do with the pain, the hurt, the lashing is to find a way to use it to connect. This is a daunting task, yet I see the truth of it. When so often I want to pull away from others because of the pain.
Absolutely. Thank you for this Roddy, I'm on this journey with you. We are heavily conditioned to hide our pain as weakness, as something shameful, as a personal burden to bear... when pain is truly one of the most unifying aspects of the human experience. I've found that vulnerability begins as a practice, made softer by compassion until it eventually becomes so pleasurable it's hard to imagine living without it.
"now, soften that Self and get close to the soul" ~ Thank you for this beautiful, tender piece. I read this before I started back at work today and felt my whole being soften. The idea of "not enough" as a force moving through the collective really struck me. The idea that it's another way to ultimately dull us and keep us (dutifully as you said) serving the system has long enraged me and yet reading this piece I also felt a curiosity and a softening as you explored this force with such compassion and nuance.
Thank you so much for this reflection of shared resonance and reverberation. I'm with you in both the sacred rage and the potent curiosity -- which I appreciate so much about our connection. Grateful for your words, for the depth with which you received this piece, and to continue exploring these questions alongside you. So much to unlearn and reimagine.