Issue 16 — Joy Is Not Optional
Last issue ended with a challenge: take one entry from what you wrote and say it out loud to one person. Not to be absolved. Not to be corrected. To say it.
Last issue ended with a challenge: take one entry from what you wrote and say it out loud to one person. Not to be absolved. Not to be corrected. To say it.
Last issue ended with a challenge: write it down. Three questions, asked privately, with no one grading the answers. What the myth of white supremacy gave you that you accepted without question. What it cost someone else. What it has cost you.
If you are in the northern hemisphere, summer is over. Not as a metaphor. As a fact. The season shifted, and with it, the work.
Six months ago, this newsletter opened with a word that stopped fitting. You have been in it since then. Fear as infrastructure. Self-trust as a controlled substance. Atrophied capacity.
Issue 11 named three tools the myth spent your entire life making sure you did not have: a strong enough why, the question "what am I missing," and the capacity to manage your feelings when what you find is uncomfortable.