Deep deep deep. Thank you, Courtney, for frequently giving voice and vocabulary to things I’ve been thinking. This is indeed a year of excavation. We are sorting and sifting and uncertain what new layers we’ll uncover, but I agree that it is all work worth doing. Keep going: with your book and with thinking out loud here.
I think last year my questions were probably more self-centered, like am I a good person or a bad person? Now they're about my family and what to make of this life we have. The good news is, I'm feeling a lot less guilty about stupid shit or precious about things like where to send my kid to school. Thanks for this.
I love this question. I coauthored a book of questions and prompts in 2017 that are mostly all questions underneath the questions and I continue to explore them and as you said often find more questions...What could you do to help others and yourself have reverence for nature--instead of seeing primarily as a resource and recreational landscape for others?? Lots of deep work in this question--my conditioning to see it as resource and recreation...how did that come to be...and more. Thank you Courtney. Look forward to your book.
Love this: "What could you do to help others and yourself have reverence for nature--instead of seeing primarily as a resource and recreational landscape for others?" I just read a critique of people referring to nature as a playground and I found it so interesting and fresh. I'd never thought of the ways in which we objectify rather than speak about it as a relationship.
Deep deep deep. Thank you, Courtney, for frequently giving voice and vocabulary to things I’ve been thinking. This is indeed a year of excavation. We are sorting and sifting and uncertain what new layers we’ll uncover, but I agree that it is all work worth doing. Keep going: with your book and with thinking out loud here.
"A year of excavation" -- perfectly put!
I think last year my questions were probably more self-centered, like am I a good person or a bad person? Now they're about my family and what to make of this life we have. The good news is, I'm feeling a lot less guilty about stupid shit or precious about things like where to send my kid to school. Thanks for this.
Yes, I wonder if there is something about that -- as the questions become deeper, they become less self-focused.
I love this question. I coauthored a book of questions and prompts in 2017 that are mostly all questions underneath the questions and I continue to explore them and as you said often find more questions...What could you do to help others and yourself have reverence for nature--instead of seeing primarily as a resource and recreational landscape for others?? Lots of deep work in this question--my conditioning to see it as resource and recreation...how did that come to be...and more. Thank you Courtney. Look forward to your book.
Love this: "What could you do to help others and yourself have reverence for nature--instead of seeing primarily as a resource and recreational landscape for others?" I just read a critique of people referring to nature as a playground and I found it so interesting and fresh. I'd never thought of the ways in which we objectify rather than speak about it as a relationship.
Yes. So much to uncover and bring to the surface so that reverence rising to the top of the R's!
Hey Courtney - I read your blog because I'm working on similar issues - just wanted to connect. I'm posting my own blog here - you are welcome to ignore or whatever - thanks and take care - Liz Dempsey Lee https://www.lizdempseylee.com/post/privilege-footprints-schools-parenting-and-community-in-the-time-of-covid