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Purposeful Connection is a place to sit with the hard stuff, and then find your way through it — one small step at a time, with curiosity, courage, and compassion; never alone.
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Transitions, Big and Small (October Gathering) (opens the original)
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A quick (2 min) mid-week email to tell you about our October gathering. I hope you’ll join me. Pumpkin muffins, crisp air, fall foliage, apple cider, and dark mornings: where I live, fall has arrived. How cliché of me to use it as an opportunity to talk about transitions. But it’s not just the seasons! Transitions are present everywhere; in big and small ways: the end of summer / beginning of fall the beginning of your work day / the end of your work daythe beginning of a writing session / the e
How to rename your Substack (the non-linear way) (opens the original)
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Pressure (from within, always) to articulate spiral + constellation thinking with precision. Absurd. My own mind1 and the term don't allow it. and I record a Bird Constellations episode about spirals + constellations: “I wouldn’t even know where to begin, trying to capture it in writing, such a linear format.” I fear she might say: poetry! But instead offers a reading list2 and: parentheses!
Here, we think in spirals + constellations, not in straight lines. (opens the original)
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I think I’ve found ‘the one’. Wow; it’s felt exciting at times, obsessive and compulsive at others, and then like flow.This whole experience is so strange; how one can get so hooked into a quest and you CANNOT LET GO? You spiral and spiral around it until you have it. A moment of bliss, calm, relief.And then? Exhaustion, emptiness. (Reminds me of when a special interest fades, but on a much shorter time scale.)I need food. And water. And my
The Beauty of Spiral + Constellation Thinking (opens the original)
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When I talk about a mind that think in spirals + constellations, I often focus on what’s hard: We can get stuck in thought loops, every decision can feel big, and the complexity can get overwhelming. ꩜ ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ Today, let’s appreciate what’s beautiful about our fascinating minds that think in spirals + constellations <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w945!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubs
The Beauty of Spiral + Constellation Thinking (opens the original)
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When I talk about a mind that think in spirals + constellations, I often focus on what’s hard: We can get stuck in thought loops, every decision can feel big, and the complexity can get overwhelming. ꩜ ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ Today, let’s appreciate what’s beautiful about our fascinating minds that think in spirals + constellations <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w945!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubs
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