Let Your Life Speak
"I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply on the inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be." Parker Palmer, reflecting on Rosa Parks, in Let Your Life Speak.
"Congruent" is the word of the year from a friend of mine; we toasted to that word last night as we rang in the new year (early, at 9:00 pm).
The idea of coming together, in an integrated whole, is both terrifying and inevitable for me. It's the thing I've run from for so long, the thing inside me waiting to be born, the default I've avoided, where all things blend in one enmeshed, intertwined, watery web, that is also not hidden, but seen.
This would be such things as: fathering and family-ing. Faith and spirituality. Humour and silliness. Work and seriousness. Meta commentary on web projects, and in-the-weeds reflections on life. Ambitious endeavours and throwaway side-projects.
...into what I becomes the vessel for sharing, fo…
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