Please read “How I Became Collapse Aware”
Here’s a quote I particularly appreciated":
Most of the things we need to do to heal the planet and our society are the same things that would heal ourselves. Figuring out how I’m going to live Here makes my life better right now, today. At the same time, it prepares me for a future that feels very uncertain and scary.
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0:00 Hi everyone. It's my birthday next week, and I learned a couple years ago about this Buddhist practice.
0:12 There's probably other places where this is practiced too—where one of the things they do around their birthday is to actually give other people gifts instead of expect gifts. And it just resonated for me this year.
0:29 I've been reading a lot of things and listening to a lot of podcasts, and it feels like one of the things I'm really wanting more of this year is sort of a shared language and base of understanding with the people that I'm close to.
0:41 There's just so much information out there and so many different ways of thinking about the world right now. And so I thought, for the next week or so, going up to my birthday and a little after, that I would pop in every day or so and share something that I've been reading or listening to,
0:58 or thinking about that's really affected me and how I've been approaching the world. And so, the first thing that I want to share today is this article about this woman talking about becoming “collapse aware.”
1:12 And I hope you'll read the article and I would love to hear what you think about it and what resonates or doesn't with you.
1:21 It's one of those experiences that I've had a few times in my life where someone else wrote almost the exact thing that I have been thinking about for several years, much more eloquently than I could have myself.
1:33 And it's really validating and helpful to have someone else put these things that have been swirling inside my head into very clear thoughts.
1:44 I won't say a lot more about it than that, other than, I'm curious if you have been thinking about any of these things.
1:53 And how you're thinking about them. I've been putting a lot of thought into, kind of, what do I want to do about this, how does this affect how I live my life, how I do my work, the people I surround myself with, and what we do together.
2:07 And I have a lot of thoughts, and I'll share some of them a little further down the road. But right now, I would really just love to hear from all of you, and I hope maybe there's something interesting in this article that helps you see something different, or feel seen,
2:22 or understand what's going on for yourself a little better. So, yeah, Happy early birthday to me and all of you, and I hope that I'll hear from you soon.
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