GM! ☕️
Today’s question is another beauty:
“What can we accomplish by doing nothing?”
Let’s consider.☝🏼
When we do nothing, we are preparing ourselves for and entering into a different way of noticing, of bearing witness, of hearing what's in ourselves, what's in other people, what other people are experiencing, what's going on around us in our communities and in nature, and what's happening in the world. And so, doing nothing creates space for a true, deep seeing that is honest and real.
Additional resources
A transcript will appear at the top of this post on the web version.
Center for Action and Contemplation (Richard Rohr)
📕How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell
“How to Do Nothing,” Jenny Phillips
📕How to Relax, Thich Nhat Hanh
📕Rest Is Resistance, Tricia Hersey
📕The Sabbath, Abraham Joshua Heschel
📕Silence, Thich Nhat Hanh
Treasure chest
I bet you find a gem 💎→ how to keep caring among endless crises | becoming a nonanxious presence for myself | uprooting oppressive values in social change work through emotional intelligence | can intellectual humility save us from ourselves? | a 29-day practice and suck less challenge | Martin Luther King Jr’s organizational systems | Black History Month book recs | gen z is rediscovering the public library | two minutes of calm | but what if? 👇🏼
Have a great weekend! I’ll see you again soon.
Jenny
"What can we accomplish by doing nothing?"