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Mar 12, 2023Liked by Robert

In her book, Becoming Kin, Patty Krawec shares that in the Anishinaabe creation story, human are created last, "the least and neediest of all creation...[everything else] existed without us." All creatures need rest, and the earth itself needs rest as evidenced by farmers leaving a field fallow for one or more cultivation cycles. It follows that we need rest too. Not just enough sleep to get by, but rest, so that we can be rejuvenated like the fallow field.

I think COVID showed us that our frenzied schedules can come to a screeching halt, and the sky will not fall; that all professions are valuable, despite how workers get compensated; and that revolutionary change is possible. If our frenzied pace of life renders us little more than cogs in a machine, we are stripped of our joy and our humanity.

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Love this. Especially the poem and “I don’t need to be brilliant 24/7.”

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I really enjoy your writing and your vulnerability!

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Thank you, I needed this today. Been feeling a lot of external pressure to rush, but my body and brain work at a slower pace than society's going at the moment.

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This was excellent. Thank you!

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On the four or fifth read of your poem I finally got slow enough to feel it. Thank you.

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Love all of this. I feel peace in your resolve. I’m envious because I’m currently not at a place of peace with my pace. Thank you for the words in them I find encouragement to to sit, drink my water and find my pace.

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