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Lol, boundaries, what's that?

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Our dear friend Anabelle sent me this video after we had a phone call about values, alignment, and I guess, how do we hold ourselves accountable to our values and how does that manifest in the lives we’re active in creating for ourselves.

We’re the architects of our own paths - and I would say the bread and butter of that path are relationships. The relationship we have with others and with ourselves. So how do values manifest in that realm? Does holding ourselves accountable include holding our relations, the people we’ce actively brought into our lives similarly accountable? How about the relations of our relations?

I don’t know if Anabelle meant this when she sent me the video of these wonderful peas and how they’ve wrapped themselves around the fence as a way to further their growth and expansion, illustrating their adaptability to not only live but thrive in any space, natural or “man made...” but this made me reflect on my values - and how...I’m yearning to find a space, a set of relations, that allow me to not only exist but thrive, build, and expand.

Learning from plants is fun.

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Marlena learned and leaned into all the edges and curves of loving Jacob, here, from the first day of Spring into Summer.

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Two ENFP’s being wacky and in lovveeeeeeeee

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I was just scrolling through my Facebook when this post presented itself to me on one of the many local dog groups I partake in ( I own a dog) and thought it was too good not to meme-i-fy 😜.

To be honest though, the “finding” of work has not been awfully difficult. Opportunities not only *feel* but visually - are infinite. It’s more so the:

1. Finding something that I won’t hate myself for doing out of boredom for the next 6months - 1 year

2. And once finding that, the more arduous task of applying,

And EVEN THEN,

3. It’s the quieting of ones inner critic saying “you’re not good enough, who do you even think you are to apply for this role? You’re going to fuck it up. Don’t bother” - overtime though, through surrounding myself with love (cause I know I am worthy of it), and doing my inner work - the screams have mostly turned to whispers

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Everything at once / altogether / completely tangled together.   Goodbye Toronto,

Goodbye serendipitous (?) (~) bpnichol lane an bpnichol related things which always happen in the annex

Goodbye experimental writing 4001

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~ Sweet Nothings: The “We” of us does not come before the Me in us or the Oneness of being - for they are not mutually exclusive nor are they in competition. Finding and leaning into ways to support each other even when that support may mean the We of us moves a-part. spatially perhaps - but in that support is a spiritual alignment and commitment. “Whether it’s something we point to together and laugh about for a long time to come, or whether it’s just a memory of an amazing time passed and a connection that burned so bright for some time - we’ve gifted each other the boundless inspiration that’s undoubtedly sparked for both of us” - @jacobracogan and if nothing else we have pretty journals ;) (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxurLESB0LycEaX1ouJkzEnyNnhh_zwMRsRuGU0/?igshid=6zsokf9zrtrk