As a personal kick in the pants and to get myself writing here again, I’ve decided to take up the Reverb10 challenge – to respond, every day in December, to a prompt that help me reflect on 2010 and make 2011 everything 2010 wasn’t. Oh, was that giving too much away?
December 7: Community
Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011?
Reflect and Manifest
I was lucky enough this year to join Havi’s Kitchen Table program, and it’s been an immense joy in my life – everything from business smarts to inspiration to having my very own cadre of ass-kicking insult-generating backers to make me laugh when things go awry. And things always eventually go awry.
Part of what I discovered there was a clearer sense of what I’m missing in my in-person life: community that attends to all of me at once, without asking me to forswear my dirty mouth, or my passion for meditation, or my love of old Trixie Belden novels. The ability to show up as my whole self was incredibly healing.
In 2011, I want to deepen my connection to this community and to the people in it, and I want to think more deeply about how to translate some of these connections, whether with these same people or different people, into my non-computer life. A girl needs to go out for tea now and then, you know?
Comment Fu
What about you? How would you respond to this prompt in your own life?