One of the things that got me through parenting my neuroquirky kids (now 17 and 22!) and the systems surrounding that was your voice and meditations! It was a port in the storm some days! I ended up writing a kind of map for parents going through this very experience. It’s a practical sense of self journey that kept me sane called Wide Open Spaces: a wellbeing journal for parents of neurodiverse children. It mentions you! Let me know if you’d like a copy. This feels full circle on the receiving and giving front. Love this one too. Lou Fearn
Lifting boats 🚤 what a wonderful thought 💭 for each of us to have the opportunity to lift just one boat and maybe have our own lifted is the most beautiful thing I have heard this year so far ! Thanks as always Big J 🧎🏻
Oh god, do I ever feel like I could use some more ‘mutuality’ in my life right now. Life is a lot to hold on your own. Love the concept a bunch and love the sentiment even more! Let’s go lift some boats, I suppose!
OMG the image of the breath, giving and receiving from others collectively is the most powerful thing I can imagine. I loved this SO much. All of it, including the image of the intertwined bonsai which I would like to hang on my wall. As usual, you are the best. Love you Jeff.❤️
Jeff, although my time of parenting a young child is far in the past, I am grateful for your thoughts about the necessity (and gift) of community. Not only are we all interconnected, we are nourished and supported by giving as well as receiving kindness. For a very long time, I felt it was selfish of me to admit my need for that tenderness from others because my life has been relatively stable — as if my suffering didn’t measure up. But by more fully opening to my self-inflicted pain (always the warrior), the flow of giving and receiving tenderness is now what helps to sustain me day by day. Life is hard, even when we delude ourselves into thinking we are making it through unscathed.
Gracias! This is what we need to do and be. People seem so stretched and just getting by. Eco Village-anywhere land is available and buyable. I think Northern Ontario would be a good spot but that's mostly cuz I live in Toronto!
One of the things that got me through parenting my neuroquirky kids (now 17 and 22!) and the systems surrounding that was your voice and meditations! It was a port in the storm some days! I ended up writing a kind of map for parents going through this very experience. It’s a practical sense of self journey that kept me sane called Wide Open Spaces: a wellbeing journal for parents of neurodiverse children. It mentions you! Let me know if you’d like a copy. This feels full circle on the receiving and giving front. Love this one too. Lou Fearn
Lifting boats 🚤 what a wonderful thought 💭 for each of us to have the opportunity to lift just one boat and maybe have our own lifted is the most beautiful thing I have heard this year so far ! Thanks as always Big J 🧎🏻
Oh god, do I ever feel like I could use some more ‘mutuality’ in my life right now. Life is a lot to hold on your own. Love the concept a bunch and love the sentiment even more! Let’s go lift some boats, I suppose!
OMG the image of the breath, giving and receiving from others collectively is the most powerful thing I can imagine. I loved this SO much. All of it, including the image of the intertwined bonsai which I would like to hang on my wall. As usual, you are the best. Love you Jeff.❤️
Jeff, although my time of parenting a young child is far in the past, I am grateful for your thoughts about the necessity (and gift) of community. Not only are we all interconnected, we are nourished and supported by giving as well as receiving kindness. For a very long time, I felt it was selfish of me to admit my need for that tenderness from others because my life has been relatively stable — as if my suffering didn’t measure up. But by more fully opening to my self-inflicted pain (always the warrior), the flow of giving and receiving tenderness is now what helps to sustain me day by day. Life is hard, even when we delude ourselves into thinking we are making it through unscathed.
Beautiful response Tamar! I feel like we are kindred spirits.🙏
Gracias! This is what we need to do and be. People seem so stretched and just getting by. Eco Village-anywhere land is available and buyable. I think Northern Ontario would be a good spot but that's mostly cuz I live in Toronto!
Thank you Jeff. Loved that!
Landform 😂