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There's a particular relief in company that doesn't ask how you're doing or what you plan to do about it. It simply stays long enough for your breathing to remember an older rhythm.
Further reading: What's Wrong With You? (Short answer: nothing.) https://www.lifeboat.academy/whats-wrong-with-you/
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Belonging isn't something you build — it's something you recognise, usually in the moment when what you've been carrying privately becomes something carried between you, and the ground that felt unstable alone feels different inside that because the bond is tugging and pulling in ways that keep you oriented toward each other when everything else is pulling you apart.
The reflection: https://emotus.substack.com/p/daily-reflections-2025-05-19
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As your way of seeing begins to widen, you may notice how often closeness depends on smoothing over difference so it can be more easily held, and how tiring that becomes once you've felt contact that allows what is other to remain fully itself.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-council-of-stones
There is a way of engaging that keeps you just outside of what is happening, as though steadiness depends on remaining unchanged, and over time that distance begins to ask more of you than the work itself.
Sometimes it loosens, and you find that the work is shaping you as well.
This week’s reflection @
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/putting-out-fires-vs-planting-more-trees-47022b338d04
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There's a version of meaningful work that looks clean in the telling — the clear vision, the steady progress. And then there are the days when the mud is just mud, the days when it's oddly satisfying, the days when it feels like too much. All of it the same journey, moving toward something that tends to reveal itself along the way.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
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The conventional pedagogy persists because it conveys a view of reality that simplifies our lives. By this view, we and our world become objects to be lined up, counted, organized and owned, rather than a community of selves and spirits related to each other in a complex web of accountability called "truth." The conventional pedagogy pretends to give us mastery over the world, relieving us of the need for mutual vulnerability that the new epistemologies, and truth itself, imply.
-- Parker J. Palmer (To Know as We Are Known)
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The conventional pedagogy persists because it conveys a view of reality that simplifies our lives. By this view, we and our world become objects to be lined up, counted, organized and owned, rather than a community of selves and spirits related to each other in a complex web of accountability called "truth." The conventional pedagogy pretends to give us mastery over the world, relieving us of the need for mutual vulnerability that the new epistemologies, and truth itself, imply.
-- Parker J. Palmer (To Know as We Are Known)