What shows up here?
Finding peace
Within a state of peace I can support and advocate for change, within myself and my community.
Writing stories
Everyone has a story, many are given to us by others, some our own. How do I contribute my own?
Creating Community
My internal somatic community and my external social community, how do I care for and nurture them both?
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
They must, they have no other models.”
From James Baldwin, one of my models, guides me to become a useful elder.
Ferns were some of the earliest leafy plants to transition from the water to the land here on our planet.
How did they manage that adaptation and settle on the land?
Learning to adapt to and settle with a new community, or a new neighbour, or a new lover, or a diagnosis of a chronic heath condition, or a new responsibility, how do I manage this?
As opportunities for learning?
My first teachers were clouds, skies, mountains, rivers, soils, plants, insects, animals, birds and fungi. These were all around me as a child, easy to find, to interact with and investigate.
If we as a species can learn to share our planet with all the other life forms that have designed and produced these liveable communities here on Earth, maybe we can reduce the destructive and violent behaviours we seem to have fallen into?
This is what I am about, asking questions, imagining new scenarios, learning and sharing what I have learned.
QUESTIONS?
Can you imagine living in a community that genuinely cared for those around them they shared their community with?
Can you imagine a version of you in five or ten years time and being really happy with the way you are then?
I have sometimes been in situations where I feel hurt, scared, uncomfortable our not welcome.
In those situations when I reflect back, I imagine an alternative situation, one that I would feel relaxed and confident with.
I am not sure if it is possible to create new communities like the ones I imagine, and I am willing and curious to find out. Because leaving things as they are right now, seems like giving up.
It so often seems to me that it is through creative play and composition that we can build new stories.
And by sharing the stories based upon how we would like to live beyond this current dominance limiting binary world that we see around us now, I feel that we could find our way towards better ways to live with each other, and all the life and soils on this planet.
What might that look like?
It may look different to you, and me, and them and others, and I feel there would still be common ground we could start with.
I am sure we can build effective and secure homes for everyone, and that we can find new ways to raise and educate our young.
I am also sure that we can manage to make sure everyone has access to heath care and also have some agency and choices around what the looks like for them.
We could choose to built and offer really wonderful transport system and make them accessible to everyone if we used our collective imaginations and skills.
I like to imagine my energy and capacity if I grew up knowing that I would always have a safe and comfortable home.
That I had personalised education system whenever I chose to take it.
What if I had lifelong access to free reliable travel when I needed it.
Imagine that your health care suited you and was there when you needed it?
I am not looking for payment, sign ups, likes, or subscriptions here on this site, I am just reaching out to anyone who wants to play with collective and creative ways to build new stories and then work towards making those stories a reality.
Drop me an email or text if you feel any of this resonates and/or is relevant to you.