On Retreat

How can you make space for generative rest in your daily life?

Hello 2023.

A bit late to the proceedings of wishing you a ‘Happy New Year’, but as January comes to an end, I think I’m feeling an energy shift. I’ve been retreating and continue to do so. Hibernating hopefully to the Spring. But The Earth Sea Love Zine has been pulling at my seams. It’s been playing at the back of my mind that I haven’t been here for a while and I’m still not certain what the content will be here. I haven’t hit on a theme or stream of interest that will keep me engaged, which will keep me honest.

And I could beat myself up about this. I could call, myself all the names under the sun for being so useless. But ‘useless’ has taken on a special meaning for me now since hearing Dal Kular use it, taking her inspiration from brontë velez, with striving to be ‘useless to capitalism’.

How will you be useless to capitalism today?

REST is one way of being useless to capitalism which I’m totally leaning into for the next couple of months for sure. As well as pushing back against the system through the words and content I share with the world here and elsewhere.

I’m intentionally leaning into my healing journey this year, as we were never meant to survive but I’m aiming to do more that survive. I need to thrive as I know life is too short to piss around to somebody else’s tune or dance.

I choose freedom in everything that I do or be. And part of that freedom is deciding when I show up or don’t. When I decide to speak up and stand up or shut up.

Today I decide to REST. In bed, laptop in lap writing this from my tired little heart which is also so full of love for this world of ours that it hurts.

But I’m not complaining as if I‘m feeling it, it means I’m here still breathing, still loving, still {being}

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Happy restful useless to capitalism days x