HeyJaredWalking the empty path
Most conscious experience is a story our minds tell us based on sensory data and on learned categories, labels, meanings, and values. What happens when we notice these constraints and step beyond them?
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The second gift of pessimism: Grounded realism (opens the original)
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Humility: The courage to hold your truth lightly enough that the light of another, even one you fear, can unexpectedly illuminate your path; also known as living with tender tenacity. – John Paul Lederach, the centuries wrap around us1While writing my series about caring for MAGA people I began reading <a href="https://www.johnpaulled
And today (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Dreary rain is the most joyful oddity this morning. Why?<img
Mud (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Will I always be down there? Stuck in the mud of my own sadness? The pills brought back my brain chemistry, But they left something down there. Or maybe brought more mud back. Up here to the sad world.<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EAjn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p
Some mornings (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Some mornings the cover comes off and all I find is the sadness and the fear. I know that's not the deepest layer but last time I went down there I got stuck in depression for months. What's beneath that? Homeless folks laughing together on a street corner. Shirtless boys jogging. <a clas
John Paul Lederach: “The Gift of Pessimism” (opens the original)
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In the series Caring for the human beings of the MAGA movement I centered the final post, “Turning points,” around the early chapters of John Paul Lederach’s 2005 book The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace.Locally-led peacebuildingLederach writes that he “considers himself a practitioner-scholar who seeks to bring integrity, curiosity, and wholeness to the understanding
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