L. M. Sacasas | Substack
The question of impact is my favorite. If the people doing the impacting are tired and sick and frustrated and have all these needs that are not being met, what good is that impact? The quality of work that we can do for each other depends on the quality of care that we’re experiencing and cultivating for ourselves. I can’t say that enough.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
If we continue to measure our lives by standards of self-determination, self-actualization, self-reliance, self-betterment, self-caregiving just to get wiser, happier, and healthier seems like a strange path.
But if we change our orientation to one of interdependence, seeing humans as a web of twisted roots, a vision of interdependence allows for us
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