The Bridge #83
in which we experience the thing we were ready to believe "impossible" until we experienced it (and then, it was experienceable.)
Hello
& Welcome to The Bridge!
Writing a thing like this for so many years can make a person wonder, Am I repeating myself? Wisdom must wonder the same thing.
It’s like, there are things we’ve heard and heard again, and we’re pretty sure we understood. Like, for example: “It’s good to be kind. Being kind is a good idea.”
Yeah, we get it!
& then we experience more of life, and the depth of the truth of the wisdom hits home (past our mind, straight down through our skull, our neck, our heart, and into our gut!) and we really get it this time.
Recently, I had a meeting I’d been waiting for a rather long time. No idea how it would happen, though I had been telling people what I was looking for, and I had kept hope alive, and I had also kinda also just let go a little, and then — call it the law of attraction, serendipity, synchronicity, showing up, whatever — it happened.
Change often is like that: We invest energy, we keep alive our vision, we don’t see it happen in the timeframe we expect, and yet something tells us to just try one more thing, and… the wheels start turning.
You know what I’m talking about? Is that a thing you’ve experienced?
Something Serious
No story today, but imagine that you had a character:
Light blue eyes, soft face, big ears, average height, well-dressed yet comfortable, intelligent but not in your face about it, funny in the broadest sense, not laughing at you, kind yet a bit lonely, interested and a bit lost (maybe not all that lost actually, it’s just that we haven’t yet had a chance to ask the right questions because they’re interested and also interesting, so we keep running out of time to figure out what’s actually going on), and the person appears to be doing alright, plenty of potential, nothing yet remarkable and we wonder…
What’s gonna happen next?
Something Very Important
Alternative Ownership Enterprises (report by Transform Finance)
If you are frustrated with the current economic situation, then this is a report for you.
It inspires hope through its careful analysis of the growing trend: People all around the world are creating innovative ways to structure a business so the impact stays front and center. The livelihood of workers can be prioritized at a deeper level when ownership is taught and evenly distributed. The voices of stakeholders (more broadly than the usual directors and investors) can be heard and incorporated into the business’s modes of functioning, such that revenue is generated and all share more equally in the benefits.
Admittedly, the report doesn’t read like a novel, and the work it takes to shift governance structures of small businesses toward co-operative models or steward-ownership it’s not as sexy as talking about artificial intelligence. That said, it is nice to know that many people are challenging and changing the economy as it is, without a full-on revolution.
Something Fun
Peachy by Cell7
Wanna know how I heard of this song? Flying in a plane. IcelandAir promotes Icelandic artists. Funky.
Cell7 makes hiphop music. She’s Filipino and living in Iceland. She was born there, actually. Her real name is Ragna Kjartansdóttir. Is that important?
This song is just so very peachy. (Be sure to move your body when listening.)
Something to Practice
Auto-massage. It’s not something we do automatically (though it could be). We feel sometimes out of control when actually we are so much more autonomous than we remember. We can feel the pain. Let’s also feel the power of massaging the pain away. When self-care becomes auto-therapy.
100% organically me /
100% to 100 degree /
100% rap’s gluten free /
100% I know what I need /
rolling the streets need to be alone /
put on the phone airplane mode /
cruising around on my own
Nah, I’m doing fine. You know where to reach me.
Now you’ve experienced it, what’s next - right?
That, that is the question.
JPC 😎