Adam, your work with language is just as important as your work with the land. Language shapes perception and experience. Your written words are speaking to the deeper layers of transformation at the same time as describing experiential possibilities. Blessings on the social growth node you are tending so faithfully.
This is something that has dawned upon me over the past years. I've had some powerful teachers in this lesson. Our relational power is carried by our employment of language---to harm or heal. Sometimes both can ripple outward from the same turn of phrase. That's the real danger of it. Every week I write aware that some may be fed by the words and others angered. Becoming a writer has granted me a sense of awe for those who have done this work before me, taken the risk. Thank you for your kind note.
There's a trust fall quality to it, as I'm sure you can tell. If we wait until it feels safe, none of what I'm trying to point toward will be possible. Not everyone is equally positioned to take the risks, either. It seems to me the highest and best use of privilege--to initiate a trust fall.
The image of a "trust fall" is perfect and exactly what I needed to hear today of all days. Thank you, Adam. And thanks to everyone who comments here. I am enjoying the connection.
We use trust falls--relatively safe ones--as team building exercises at retreats, and there's a reason why. It's a potent way to break the spell called "a scarcity of goodwill." Once that veil has been lifted, so much becomes possible.
Adam, your work with language is just as important as your work with the land. Language shapes perception and experience. Your written words are speaking to the deeper layers of transformation at the same time as describing experiential possibilities. Blessings on the social growth node you are tending so faithfully.
This is something that has dawned upon me over the past years. I've had some powerful teachers in this lesson. Our relational power is carried by our employment of language---to harm or heal. Sometimes both can ripple outward from the same turn of phrase. That's the real danger of it. Every week I write aware that some may be fed by the words and others angered. Becoming a writer has granted me a sense of awe for those who have done this work before me, taken the risk. Thank you for your kind note.
A sacred task, I honour you for taking it on, Adam.
I really love watching this community unfold from a-ways away…and dreaming about how it might manifest in my neighborhood.
There's a trust fall quality to it, as I'm sure you can tell. If we wait until it feels safe, none of what I'm trying to point toward will be possible. Not everyone is equally positioned to take the risks, either. It seems to me the highest and best use of privilege--to initiate a trust fall.
The image of a "trust fall" is perfect and exactly what I needed to hear today of all days. Thank you, Adam. And thanks to everyone who comments here. I am enjoying the connection.
We use trust falls--relatively safe ones--as team building exercises at retreats, and there's a reason why. It's a potent way to break the spell called "a scarcity of goodwill." Once that veil has been lifted, so much becomes possible.