eroc passed me this interview with gabor maté earlier this week and it’s SO good. i stumbled on maté when doing some trauma research earlier this year as a part of my spiritual formation work but i hadn’t dug in any deeper since then. this episode is diving me in and it’s great.
Read more...at this point, i am moving a number of formal, informal, and adhoc groups, mostly focused towards social justice and building better worlds. honestly, what that means is a ton of meetings and lots of notetaking. it’s in my nature to look for efficiencies and one place i’ve been thinking about how to make improvements for a while is note taking. all of these meetings have SUCH intense notes. verbatim transcriptions of meeting notes are the default, mostly. and that’s not bad, per se, but i have been feeling my way into what actually needs to be tracked and why.
Read more...the other day i was chatting at lunch (our final one because one of our trio is moving) with two friends and a really great analogy flowed about emotional availability and clouds. i won’t recite the whole convo but here’s a little briefing:
Read more...earlier this week, i was with kalia, marty, and their child, iona, and a funny moment happened that i think is worth sharing.
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