What’s your growth edge into the more beautiful world your heart knows is possible? And who's on the other side of that growth edge, calling you into that more beautiful version of yourself? Who's nudging you? Who's alongside you?
I lost a very dear friend and mentor a few weeks ago, Jim Howell. He was a culture weaver: a person who used his clear seeing and charisma to strengthen the whole web of relationships he was responsible for. Remembering him with old friends after his memorial last weekend, I could feel that tending still shining in us: a touchstone for what it can feel like to be truly nourished in community.
That's precious, a touchstone like that; and what it evokes is mysterious; and there's something there I'm trying to learn. So I was very grateful in the swirl about all of this to receive the gift of a poem from Lauren MacDonald: a poem feeling into that mystery, the mystery of culture.
You’ll hear her poem in this episode—thank you Lauren!—along with musings on fermentation; a tribute to Jim; and an invitation for you to speak, too, into the great time-love-unfolding that is culture-tending.
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Send responses to the invitation of this episode, if you like, to CdV dot Saizan at gmail dot com, and together we’ll feed the bubble-swirl of this rich inquiry. Other kinds of responses—comments, emails—are so so welcome too! Thank you so much for sharing your own gifts and growth edges with us.
