Kirsten

If normal is linked to some kind of average know that that can and will shift. Will you shift with it? If you stick to this kind of normal and have a fear of being seen as crazy going against the average or what is widely promoted then you are easy pray to being manipulated and being convinced to give up your principles. If this applies to the

People not understanding what I am saying. Not because it is so advanced, often I think it is stuff that is very everyday or simple, but seems people want to use words they agreed on for specific contexts and I feel I don't want to use those words necessarily, because I never necessarily agreed on them or the meaning they have for the other person.

Want us to reckon with the layers of labelling, with the action of naming.

Oh, so you are saying the people are not real.

Nope, I am asking you to consider though what is real about them. Is it their roles, their titles, their identities? To what extent are they real?

And if not that what is real about them? What is under the layer of labelling?

We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or to hate, to see or be blind. Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and to hear silence, to name them, and