Good morning!
In @MLClark latest substack post she asks:
"What is the work that our world actually needs?"
This is a question I ask myself all the time. When I was a parent, this was clear as a mountain stream. To parent. When I was a worker is was slightly less, to earn the means to parent. Now that I am retired, The question reappears as 'Am I just wasting my time?'
I post many links here. Yes partly to seek attention. Partly to foster inquiry. And to try and help fill a world need.
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But this is a small need. And the work I do in my community, and the nearby town, directly helping other humans, seems a much better answer. How do I spend my time? When I first retired thought I would become a writer. And spin wondrous tales that changed minds. Yet that has not happened. So CoSo, while I am here I give you links.
She answers:
"Have we not forgotten that all careers are secondary to our primary role: to be—human, here, engaged, alive?"
https://mlclark.substack.com/p/writing-as-a-means-to-an-end-not
Links, yes - and also insights. I deeply appreciate the perspectives you bring to the table here. They speak to a life spent deepening in self- and communal-awareness, and they do this weary heart a world of good on many days.
Thank you for how you "be".