Folks should really commit to deepening or creating 1-2 relationships this year to spread the capacity for the necessary care work we all need to engage in. It’s unsustainable and unfair to consistently rely on the same
Person/people.

Part of liberation work is relinquishing a culture of individualism, overwork, exploitation. What is our role in creating this culture and fostering and nurturing the necessary relationships needed to sustain communities?

Thinking of also TJ work that requires community accountability and the role of every single person in a community. Not an outside facilitator, person, or professional but the every day relationship building, repair work, capacity building, self transformation, conflict practices

Capitalism teaches us this god-like savior complex. That if we just hope and pray long enough, a solution or figure will fall into our lap and change will happen. We are the ones we are waiting for and we cannot do it alone. Relationships require work, commitment,& vulnerability

There’s no fast-track way to building and sustaining relationships. It’s an everyday commitment followed up with actions, mistakes, reflections, challenges, joy, and most importantly transformation. There’s no blueprint or linear guide other than trusting people enough to try

We must take more seriously how we are connected. That if I am part of a group or a community; whatever my actions or non-actions are impact the whole and whatever another does or does not do impacts you. Nothing and no one in this universe is operating on an individual level

Nothing we do, say, learn, or conclude is a result of us as an individual. It is a culmination of people, histories, & environments. While we all of self determination and our own unique ways of relating to the world around us;we are still largely products of the world around us