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We’re looking for something that is not here. What’s here is broken and it is breaking us. And we are
accomplices in breaking other people. We inadvertently or unconsciously become the tools of the
dominant structures and narratives. And, yet, we need to consciously challenge ourselves to be on a
different horizon. That work to be able to get to a new horizon is not yet fully happening.
We are in a state of suspension between
what is dying and decaying and what is
becoming. We are in the process of
composting.
Let’s make that
process conscious.
Love in its purest form is the how: How we are going to get there. We may not know where “there” is just
yet but it won’t stink and harm like the present shit.
To be able to see, on a mass scale, that we have been accomplices in the destruction of our people. People
are saying no, I will no longer be an accomplice. The reality is there are people all along the way who
have been rejecting the bullshit. More and more of us are now rejecting it and paving a more liberatory
way to be human together.
What looks different when we embody the courage to embrace a “new way” of being, grounded in
balance and love?
• More truth telling as a part of healing;
• More courage and leaning into bravery;
• More trusting & authentic relationships;
• Commitment to risk-taking, experimentation and innovation;
• Standing with communities most harmed by oppressive systems and lifting them up;
• Recognizing the contradictions inherent in philanthropy, [e]valuation, in our own community
engagement practices, and
• The “no other way to get it” learning and development that comes through collective dreaming and efforts.
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