Place Corps Friday Digest: Careful

It's Friday!

It feels as though this week swept by so quickly and the reality of Monday is different than our reality this Friday. We have been wildly aware of disruption. We have been experiencing the encroachment of the Coronavirus steadily with greater impacts this week. We have felt the ripple of a tragic loss in our Hawthorne Valley family community and last week we missed our Friday Digest as Rebecca Cosenza fell ill. These events differ in magnitude but illustrate our interconnectedness and fragile but resilient social ecosystems. How we do we stay flexible to stay together and support one another? This is what we are considering deeply now as we test our Place Corps learning in real time.

Our word for the week is careful. Rather, care-FULL. We are thinking about how we move forward with tenderness and care towards our self and our community and our places through these challenging times. What actions and intentions can we lead with? As we continue to move towards the unknown and uncertain, how can we put into practice all our learnings from this year: to know, to love, and to serve all with care-fullness. 

“ When a system assigns meaning to data,
when it "in-forms" it,
data then becomes information.”
― Margaret Wheatley
 

Washing your hands is an act of love
Washing your hands is an act of care
Washing our hands is an act that puts the hypervigilant body at ease
Washing our hands helps us return to ourselves by washing away what does not serve
Wash your hands…

-Read the whole gorgeous piece by @adriennemareebrown