I have been in deep reflection these past few months. Maybe you have been as well? I tend to like to be home alone, so a good deal of my time spent in quarantine felt rejuvenating and enlivening. On social media or watching mainstream media, the energetics I was met with were often astonishing. Panic, confusion, uncertainty, despair, anger and polarity was often too much to bear. Friends were arguing with each other, people shaming each other for their beliefs —a lot. Leadership that didn’t occur to me as what I understand leadership to be. Just people saying stuff that is inflammatory and contradictory and offering opinions as facts. Facts that shifted and changed hourly, weekly, from the end of one day to the beginning of the next. And it seems like many of us have gone into a free-fall.
Read MoreThis post is written by a friend. Alan Muskat. Alan is well-known as the Mushroom Man in Asheville, NC. He is a forager and takes thousands of people on walks through the woods. Alan and I talk often. We were talking about his business No Taste Like Home a few years back. In this conversation I remember him sharing something to me about understanding nature, the earth and foraging. It was then and remains one of the most profound wake-ups for me —living here in the city.
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