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The greatest saints in the world
a community of friends and neighbors that provide both safety net and spring board—support when things are hard, and celebration when things are especially good. We, in turn, provide those things for them.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
I don’t have any answers because I don’t think there are any. But I’m fond of Margaret Wheatley’s framing of creating “islands of sanity,” which a kind reader reminded me of in the lovely comments of my last post. These islands are crucially not places of retreat, but rather of contribution — hyperlocal, small in scale, yet deeply meaningful. To... See more
Face-down on cold tile
When hope is gone, you must live with trust instead. And to live with trust in the good is to recognize that the small (but good) things around you matter: tending to a symbolic flame, honoring a funeral ritual when it slows you down, or helping someone with no ability to repay you.
A good world is brought into being by small acts of courage and... See more
A good world is brought into being by small acts of courage and... See more