While railing against the manufactured prerequisites of womanhood or manhood, we need to avoid manufacturing our own prerequisites. The non-operative journey and the objection to it illustrate just one area in which we need to open our thinking to other journeys while expecting that others respect our own. - Mercedes Allen
Kate BornsteinTags: gender transition transgender gender-reassignment-surgery grs
Angels of highest light and love,
Angels that radiate beams of pure energy from the heavens above.
Please join us and be with us on this very night,
As the soul of our beloved joins you in flight.
We pray that you send this soul embraced in your lovely wings,
During his journey may he hear harps, and trumpets and strings.
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A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.
Mandy HaleTags: loneliness alone seasons isolation transition lonely aloneness positive-thinking single butterfly singleness metamorphosis being-alone caterpillar single-life seasons-of-life being-single the-single-woman single-woman becoming-who-you-re-meant-to-be
Let me outline briefly as I can what seem to me the characteristics of these opposite kinds of mind. I conceive a strip-miner to be a model exploiter, and as a model nurturer I take the old-fashioned idea or ideal of a farmer. The exploiter is a specialist, an expert; the nurturer is not. The standard of the exploiter is efficiency; the standard of the nurturer is care. The exploiter's goal is money, profit; the nurturer's goal is health -- his land's health, his own, his family's, his community's, his country's. Whereas the exploiter asks of a piece of land only how much and how quickly it can be made to produce, the nurturer asks a question that is much more complex and difficult: What is its carrying capacity? (That is: How much can be taken from it without diminishing it? What can it produce dependably for an indefinite time?) The exploiter wishes to earn as much as possible by as little work as possible; the nurturer expects, certainly, to have a decent living from his work, but his characteristic wish is to work as well as possible. The competence of the exploiter is in organization; that of the nurturer is in order -- a human order, that is, that accommodates itself both to other order and to mystery. The exploiter typically serves an institution or organization; the nurturer serves land, household, community, place. The exploiter thinks in terms of numbers, quantities, "hard facts"; the nurturer in terms of character, condition, quality, kind.
Wendell BerryTags: revolution transition ecology stewardship
Author says change emphasizes what is happening TO us while transition emphasizes opportunity for growth within.
William BridgesTags: change transition adaptability
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