speaking up is powerful work. i had a handful of meaningful, difficult conversations last week and was met with gratitude, generosity, compassion, understanding, and dare i say it, love—a delectable reminder of the company i keep as well as parallel to my recent refinement in responsibilization of my felt sense experience. i sometimes fear my feelings are too ugly to receive witness yet somehow cooperatively chrysalis into vital information especially when owned—distance between insecurity and love needed is a conversation.
challenges tickle my brain like an impending scratch. navigating tetris mazes is information possibility. the town where i recently bought land employed a new building code officer. she sounds like a hard ass on the phone, but the longer i kept her on the line, the more she softened. we journeyed from “why the hell did you buy an L-shaped lot?” to “if you submit a strong site design plan, i’ll cut the edges on your square footage requirement.” it felt like subterranean relationship building. i ended the call sheepishly spilling, “expect to hear from me a lot.”
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