Just…try
“…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”
Category: Reflection & Rumination
Mending fences
“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 los perturbadores
Esto es para quienes les preocupa que los llamen arrogantes o ignorantes o rebeldes, pero aun así continúan.
Encouragement
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.
Godawful
“Here was Christianity’s key role in colonization, captured in a 3″ x 1″ (7.5 cm x 2.5 cm) photo card.”
Advice is not care
Is the social good sector a formalized advice delivery system for people who are marginalized, and donor funding the compliance enforcer?
Ease, Flow, Pace
“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…”
Honoring traditions
“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.”
Ancient Technologies
“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 show up
To be part of offering and receiving the care of sisterhood is available to everyone…and may be the key to our shared survival.
Back home
“COVID-19 and the climate crisis are asking me to move towards everything that home offers.”
To be real
“I have far too little tolerance for the performance of high-minded, intellectualized ‘goodness’ lately.”
