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Elena's avatar
Mar 8Edited

Beautiful post! You articulated so much of what my journey has been hosting reading groups for the past 2 years. Especially the tension between holding a container while being inevitably transformed by it. Being generous and transparent while also being the person planning, maintaining, and understanding the limits of the structure.

christineist's avatar

really loved this, thanks for writing!!

Good Medicine Collective's avatar

This is absolutely stunning insight and articulation. Thank you🙏

Jonathan Daruma Bonello's avatar

This is exactly what I needed to read at exactly the right time! Thank you 🌱💕

Bubba's avatar

This is rich and requires some fermenting. WOW, thanks.

Abigail Lynam's avatar

Beautiful, potent, powerfully conveyed!

David Spinks's avatar

holy cow this is so good and puts words to so much of what has been bubbling around in my head. thinking back to our conversation at the retreat. thanks for putting all of this down.

Charley Todd's avatar

What an outstanding piece

Tom Morgan's avatar

I think this is exceptional and rings very true with my own experience.

Timothée's avatar

this is gold. best thing I read in a long time. so beautifully written. calling the source guardian the holder is genius, is that from you? thank you so much for your work 🙏🏻

Dario Martinis's avatar

absolutely magnificent and really timely - thank you Patricia

Amahra Spence's avatar

Yes! This! All of this. Been reading / savouring this slowly all day. #17 speaks to something I've been thinking about writing, an attempt to explore the conflation of community with friendship...to zoom into the ways desire for belonging, friendship & intimacy as *the* goal become centred in movement spaces - and the subsequent heartbreak / collapsing into "harm" - which in turn poses such significant risk to our missions. You've articulated some of this so beautifully. A thread I'd love to generatively pull some more. Thank you for writing.

Hugo Nijenhuis's avatar

Thank you very much!

Rachel Saslaw's avatar

So beautifully written and articulated

Dechen Ellen's avatar

What an awesome offering. Also your mind / perceptual world feel so different from mine ... even though this is ostensibly familiar territory, I often felt like I was reading a dispatch from a perspective I've never looked at the room from. Thank you.

Patricia Mou's avatar

thank you for your reflection Dechen~ I feel similar when reading your writing. Grateful you help me experience the same essence with a deeper wholeness 🤍

Janne Kukka's avatar

🙏💚