242 / Housing That Fosters Belonging
Our individuality is entwined with our connectedness; so the work of healing and growth happens both alone and in relation to others.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
Community offers the promise of belonging and calls for us to acknowledge our interdependence. To belong is to act as an investor, owner, and creator of this place. To be welcome, even if we are strangers. As if we came to the right place and are affirmed for that choice.
Peter Block • Community: The Structure of Belonging
Belonging is an expression of life.
Sebene Selassie • You Belong: A Call for Connection
There’s a quote I like from Theodor Adorno, who said, “for a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes place to live." While I’ve never been a refugee, I still feel that quote really strongly, as someone who’s never quite felt fully at home in most of my ordinary life– always a bit of an alien, always an outsider, always a minority, always ... See more
Notes versus Posts
Trauma stories lessen the isolation of trauma, and they provide an explanation for why people suffer the way they do.