work, job, needs

i see the work that i'm doing as an opportunity to bring people closer and experience a new quality of intimacy - deep human level connection, where we remember one another....i'm really clear that it's the best i can do right now to make the best impact.

~says one friend.

i feel my role, my calling, the shape of my own work becoming clear, in the most exciting and deeply intuitive way. it is my job to embody a new way of being an organization, and to design, craft, and communicate the structures and practices that will become our rhythm, that will invite the community continually into its deep self. to align fully with life-giving practices, without compromise...

~says another.

and as you know, if you've been keeping up with my past posts, i've been playing alot with the question, what do you need ? i responded with this to the second friend, chris weaver:

to me the strength and the specific flavor of this time (in a very broad global, collective sense) is recognizing who and what we need and going after it. bringing it into being. surrounding ourselves with people, environments, and actions that continuously inspire and renew us into a place of potential and possibilities where our passions and callings can be heard, responded to, and followed. we need community for that. we need support. we need to feel understood. we need to be seen and acknowledged. we need to be alighned with others who have similar dreams, goals, aspirations, intentions, motivations, desires, needs, wants, wishes, fantasies, etc. we need to let go of our past of feeling isolated, of feeling lonely. we need to stand tall together in our aloneness, in our personal power, in our collective power, swimming in the pool of what is with our eyes wide open and our hearts at rest.

i'm particularly humored by how great it feels to need these things and by the amount of personal growth and development that has evolved from my learning not to depend on these things. i'm specifically thinking about the need to feel understood and seen and acknowledged. i have/am enjoying a remarkable journey of undoing my tendency to define myself and my personal worth by how seen and understood i feel. and i am so in love with the unfolding flowering of being seen and understood. what do you call such delicious entanglements?

thank you to my easily amazed family. you do all know how much you mean to me, right? wether you comment or not, i love the life that you breathe into this 'community'.