Slow & Fast
“It seems like everything has happened all at once, but I know that it took many years of effort and growth and strain and hope and loss on both of our parts to arrive here with each other.”
“It seems like everything has happened all at once, but I know that it took many years of effort and growth and strain and hope and loss on both of our parts to arrive here with each other.”
“…the truth is that there is no escape…because the social good sector is merely a reflection and expression of the society it seeks to shift”
“I have witnessed how ‘mending fences’ was tied up with relinquishment of dignity…Many people in our social good sector have been required to be ‘the bigger person’ for far too long.”
Esto es para quienes les preocupa que los llamen arrogantes o ignorantes o rebeldes, pero aun así continúan.
The encouragers matter so much right now because they are inviting us to see the bigger picture, to believe in ourselves, to take the risk…to become unstuck.
“Here was Christianity’s key role in colonization, captured in a 3″ x 1″ (7.5 cm x 2.5 cm) photo card.”
Is the social good sector a formalized advice delivery system for people who are marginalized, and donor funding the compliance enforcer?
“We are in a time of collective upheaval, grief, and crisis. Yet, in the social good sector, we keep requiring ourselves and our colleagues to go at an unsustainable pace. And it’s hurting us…”
“Let us honor our teachers and those who shaped our practices by bringing specifics – their names, their places, their lineages – into all our sharing of these practices.”
“This is the world I know I want to be a part of – one where we can all experiment, where we can stop performing, where we can belong, where we can relax, celebrate, and grieve and be confused…together.”
To be part of offering and receiving the care of sisterhood is available to everyone…and may be the key to our shared survival.
“COVID-19 and the climate crisis are asking me to move towards everything that home offers.”