Place of lumpy crossings
Helping Friendly Newsletter, 06.10.22
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Here are this week’s 5 things to consider:
The Irish word corrymeela, or “place of lumpy crossings.” I feel this! Every life, every community, every organization, and every relationship has its hard, uncomfortable places. Here’s a hope from Pádraig Ó Tuama: “Even the naming of that…[might] be a lovely, wise understanding about what success is.” Conflict and stress may be inevitable, but destruction is not. We can, with care, make the crossing.
Two excellent questions from Elizabeth Gilbert: “What if you are the very agent of illumination that a dark situation begs for?” and “Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”
Conservation photographer Paul Nicklen’s encounter with a mother humpback and her calf in the waters off Tonga. “Countless variables must come together to produce an image with the power to effect change—luck, chance, light, weather and timing, and so on—but a wild animal accepting you into its presence is the most important of all.”
A collection of works on attention and sound: saving the sounds of Cairo, noticing the Earth’s primal sounds, the shadow of silence, and penitent horns. “If we’re not paying attention through our own senses, we have disengaged from the primary mode in which every creature since the origin of life has connected to its environment. And if we’re not listening, we’ve got no stories to tell the future.”—David Haskell
Tiny book reviews.📚 See my star ratings and tiny reviews for these titles.
Treasure chest
I bet you find a gem ➔ memorial footage from Normandy on this day in 1944 🕊 | prayer for Pride | what we can learn from the protests of 2020 | why Apple’s employee retention strategy failed | your burnout recovery will be unique | 10 healthy reasons to procrastinate | 6 albums your corporate algorithm won’t tell you about | your camera roll contains a masterpiece | i can’t decide. which do you love more?👇🏼
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Have a great weekend! I’ll see you again soon.
Jenny
