Soft Landing for Hard Questions
There are some days when I pause as I start this missive wondering how to greet you all.
I love and long for conversations, back and forth flows, and while I do get a lot of joy out of writing, I miss seeing you and/or hearing you.
Today I am imagining we are ambling down a trail together, big deep green pines meeting the arc of our footprints, as I share what is up for me and then bend my head to listen to you.
That feels about right!!
And while being together I want to be inviting, welcoming, warm AND I want to ask provocative questions like:
What is your relationship to fossil fuel?
In tapping out that question on the keyboard I notice my solar plexus clenches a bit.
How about you?
Perhaps hard isn’t the right description for that question. Challenging. Edgy. Uneasy. Hum.
What I know is I’ve not asked this exact question before. Relationship. Seeing fossil fuels from that vantage point has a different resonance in my body.
And I definitely haven’t asked this question with a group of people yet.
And my ongoing question is; “How do I/you/we move forward in exploring a question, or an idea, or most anything that might have a hardness or edge, even when our bodies may clench, shiver, retreat or get tight?”
Which led me to consider softness as an ingredient.
Soft Landings
Imagining, if not having soft light.
A symbolic candle, even on zoom.
Pausing and breathing and grounding together.
Perhaps a loamy black soil topped with bright green grass is what you are sitting upon.
The sun’s rays are subtle and moving through you. Warming you to the bone.
Reciting a poem to bring us into wider ways of knowing.
Inviting and invoking the senses.
Embellishing the container with reminders of agreements designed
To drop us into our hearts and to entice us back again and again to the sun and soil.
Weaving the space together like a spider web.
Loosely and pretty darn strong.
No right or wrong ravels or un, or way of interpreting the question.
Wonder. Turn, turn, turn towards!
And deep listening, like breathing.
And remembering.
Never before has this particular group of humans been together
Asking this particular question at this particular moment in time.
That is a bit of magic.
Gaze inward and around the space.
Drink each other in, while holding your own cup.
What comes in can move out.
Weave. Flow. Adapt.
Fly.
You can create your own soft landings and dive into this question by yourself or with friends or family---
Or
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Either way.
Let’s keep cultivating wonder, and heart!
Carol
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