“ It is talking, not to convince, but to understand.”
I think this might prove to be the best statement of the spirit of Prudent Stewardship Assemblies as adaptations of Citizens Assemblies in politics to the regulation of the morality of money infused into enterprise through the financial mathematics of equity paybacks accountable to the common sense of new 21st Century planetary citizens in the new 21st Century planetary commons of Fiduciary Money controlled by Social trusts for Pensions & Endowments.
Rachel, such an important piece for many reasons. I had to write this gem in my journal: "edges make limits and limits create space." Long ago, a friend in prison taught me about finding freedom within constraint, which was conceptually new to me. That paradox.
Also, not confusing symbols of liberation with liberation itself. Distinguishing between the finger pointing at the moon and the moon. Here in the US where symbols often become performative, it's easy to adopt one. I wear my little watermelon lapel pin more as my own daily practice of fastening it to a shirt so that I remain mindful as I move about my day freely, my Palestinian siblings are being starved and crushed and trying to survive. And yes, it matters that I don the pin, probably more for me than others, though I hope it does signal to people who see it that this Jewish person knows we can never atone for this genocide—and in a way, the pin is like wearing a piece of rent black fabric, a sign of mourning.
And yes, how we speak with each other is fundamental. I sit in circle a lot and train folks in the practice of peacemaking circles where we hold space for the complexity of our stories and intersections. The practice is to listen attentively, with curiosity and to notice, wonder, acknowledge, and appreciate (understand more deeply) by listening without the answer running. Thanks for the nourishment of your words.
And here now again, another huge wow arises within me, as I finish reading this... Your writings over and over keep shaping and reshaping our world, as well as my own ways of seeing, and even as we all become like sculptors who are merely removing what is in the way of what is always and already here, ready to be realized, as in made real...
What is reaching to speak through you (my sense), more and more and more, is HUGE, Rachel.... Please keep falling back into it, even as it seems to keep thrusting you further and further out into the middle of what I believe is also a new shared world seeking to emerge, even now, through all this blatant delusion, destruction and chaos...
And as you keep falling back, let yourself discover, in what will keep forever being further, greater and deeper ways, that what you are falling back into is also you, me, us, all of life...
“ It is talking, not to convince, but to understand.”
I think this might prove to be the best statement of the spirit of Prudent Stewardship Assemblies as adaptations of Citizens Assemblies in politics to the regulation of the morality of money infused into enterprise through the financial mathematics of equity paybacks accountable to the common sense of new 21st Century planetary citizens in the new 21st Century planetary commons of Fiduciary Money controlled by Social trusts for Pensions & Endowments.
Rachel, such an important piece for many reasons. I had to write this gem in my journal: "edges make limits and limits create space." Long ago, a friend in prison taught me about finding freedom within constraint, which was conceptually new to me. That paradox.
Also, not confusing symbols of liberation with liberation itself. Distinguishing between the finger pointing at the moon and the moon. Here in the US where symbols often become performative, it's easy to adopt one. I wear my little watermelon lapel pin more as my own daily practice of fastening it to a shirt so that I remain mindful as I move about my day freely, my Palestinian siblings are being starved and crushed and trying to survive. And yes, it matters that I don the pin, probably more for me than others, though I hope it does signal to people who see it that this Jewish person knows we can never atone for this genocide—and in a way, the pin is like wearing a piece of rent black fabric, a sign of mourning.
And yes, how we speak with each other is fundamental. I sit in circle a lot and train folks in the practice of peacemaking circles where we hold space for the complexity of our stories and intersections. The practice is to listen attentively, with curiosity and to notice, wonder, acknowledge, and appreciate (understand more deeply) by listening without the answer running. Thanks for the nourishment of your words.
And here now again, another huge wow arises within me, as I finish reading this... Your writings over and over keep shaping and reshaping our world, as well as my own ways of seeing, and even as we all become like sculptors who are merely removing what is in the way of what is always and already here, ready to be realized, as in made real...
What is reaching to speak through you (my sense), more and more and more, is HUGE, Rachel.... Please keep falling back into it, even as it seems to keep thrusting you further and further out into the middle of what I believe is also a new shared world seeking to emerge, even now, through all this blatant delusion, destruction and chaos...
And as you keep falling back, let yourself discover, in what will keep forever being further, greater and deeper ways, that what you are falling back into is also you, me, us, all of life...
🙏🌻💕🇵🇸
Gorgeous.
Deep bows, huge thanks, peace ✌🏼
Thankyou Rachel
GOOD SOVEREIGNTY vs BAD SOVEREIGNTY, perhaps the main cause of global warming.
Pls visit EARTHABOVEALL.NET
COP-CHICO-MENDES instead of COP30.
cacophony♾️symphony
when is one then the other