Mar 13, 2020
Allow me to process- the process lifeline. Things are uncertain, again. This time, it’s weird for us all.(This photo, unrelated, just brings me joy.) It feels like losing all control, what is happening. It’s felt like this before. It is all in a twist, and if you aren’t worried about health, you might be worried about money. We have long been worried about both, and all the unknown. I started to get whipped the past few days, unsafe. Feeling angry at what’s beyond, wanting to just get on with life— but life’s not paused. This day, this crisis, this- our life. We’re in play.
I’m trying to think of “the quarantine” as my power- an incubator, an opportunity. More time to plan for change, for learning, for creating. A container for work, curiosity, making, and releasing. A boundary for love, rest, planning, organization. A needed yet impossible pause, for many. Sure, there is much unknown and it is uncomfortable, frustrating. But, don’t we have a choice with this space— and at least 2+ weeks time?
I’m wondering if rather than get spun by what's off, if it’s possible to try to take power in seeing what can be done. Can the most be made of this confine? We might all be socially distancing, feeling huge losses, and making attempts at calculating future outcomes. We might feel isolated, even with the sometimes misused technology of connection in hand. But, can we imagine a modern telephone game, a rewire of connection to those wireless, a way to listen closely, while passing along our hope. Ring in?
The economy is in a twist, but with courage we will fail upward. With discipline and patience, we will regain health. We will rebuild with the vote of our dollars, joining learning with fresh intent. We can collaborate and pivot, in collective ownership, powerful in this pause. We prepare together for the rebound, the reconnection, the rebuilding of the economy, the relaunching life after loss. We bring the support. We are makers of our world, with our seeds of spring, which is coming.
Tell us, how are you filling the time? What is your hope? Would love to hear! And, how are we coping? Are we at 3 cases of TP or at 10? ;) Spare a square! We all in this together.