We Show Up as We Are

pursuing extra
you miss the ordinary
mundane is magic

Presence of Absence

Presence of Absence

Matthew Word Bain

1. Start Small and Invite Someone to Join You

I Have Just Begun

I Have Just Begun

Amanda Judd

This feels like us to me. Gathering together. Sharing what we create and shape from our lives. Sometimes from nothing, it seems. If an idea can be nothing. But an idea isn’t nothing. It’s part wish. Part thought. Part dream.

Something listened for. A surprise that has been brewing for years. Attending.

A tending.

Attention not paid but given.

Believe

Believe

Xiuming Liang

Is there a wrong side of the net?

Is There a Wrong Side of the Net?

Gail Boenning

2. Plant a Seed

I have grown to love
The exquisite discipline
Of writing haiku

Perhaps you could, too
I say this only because
You inspired me

Padma

Padma

Jayashree Krishnan

3. Read a Book Together

4. Try Something New to You

Removing reveals.
Chipping the inessential
form is discovered.

Now to try it out
One foot forward and again
Going together

It is fun to play
Writing verses with constraints
Wouldn’t you agree?

Creativity
Is not a skill to master
It is who you are

Relationship

Relationship

Pass N Play

Relationship

Relationship

Pass N Play

Relationship

Relationship

Pass N Play

5. Learn to Navigate the Waters

The drop down thing displayed Chicago’s time, I went under advanced options and it had a really crazy way of displaying time for other time zones. It dawned on me that my geography knowledge is horrible. Not sure why they didn’t do the simple EST, CT, PT stuff.

Work Flow

Work Flow

Renée Fishman

Change is Scary

Change Is Scary

Marijke van Veldhoven

how do I say this…
you have such a lovely smile
…salad becomes you

6. Let Curiosity Suggest a Course

Pesca

Pesca

Anya Toomre

WHO

Ajike Kendrick Asegun

WHO TOLD YOU YOU’RE NOT BEAUTIFUL

Who said it
Who called you something else
Something not your name
Who glitched you
Sent you whirling spiraling
Kicked your world from under you

WHO TOLD YOU I SAID IT
Who lied
Said you had to earn it
Your worth
Who put my name in it
Made me co conspirator to lies

WHO’S LOVING YOU
Always has always will
Who’s here touching your face
Wrangling you washing you clean
Standing you upright
Dressing you anointing you with oil
Making your forehead strong
I AM
Read

The Community of Salt (II)

The Community of Salt (II)

Inma J. López

7. Take a Deep Dive

Thunder’s rolling in
Lightning’s licking the sky and
I know what’s coming

Nagging voices and flashing neon signs

Nagging Voices and Flashing Neon Signs

Helena Roth

The Yosemite High Route

The Yosemite High Route

Nick Burdick

Unwritten

Jennifer Hole

my grandmother told
my mother, write nothing down
truth was a danger

but she called me once,
hearing a word in Bus Stop
she wanted to share

she liked to play cards
and read cheap romance in the
ever smoky air

Read

Note to Self:

You don’t need to know everything. How could you? Just enough to set off willing to decide with attention. One small move towards daring. What is revealed comes next. Yours to see.