#rainforestmind

If your peg doesn’t fit into either a round or a square hole, read @lennecefer’s post. He is a peaceful warrior of other paths. Paths that are just fine for a life and sometimes extraordinary. #rainforestmind #multipotentialite #Repost @lennecefer ・・・ Meme king. Renaissance man. I don’t fit into neat categories and i like it. Years ago the stuffiness of professional culture reached a boiling point with me and I left it behind. I left a career of being a “professional” and decided to carve my own path. I know what I know and no one can take that away from me. What matters now is our values and how we turn this into political action. I grew up in a family of union workers and I am forever grateful for what this upbringing provided me. A tenacity for hard work and determination is an incredible gift. I am forever grateful for these lessons and turning this into transformation the opportunities for the communities I come from. 📸 @ben_moon https://www.instagram.com/p/Clty_BoPfobflvlUzpTrcLlo31fR7BdJKqFZFU0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Cycles of cycles within cycles. The seasons repeat with familiarity, yet each has its own flavor and character. The past 16 months have brought many transitions and endings. Long, challenging—as well as rewarding—journeys come to a close as new ones begin. They overlap, each on its own timeline. And sometimes, if we are paying attention, we may observe profound synchronicities between some of them. Back in May, which itself seems eons ago, my kid graduated from @bridgesacademy2e. Like everything, it’s a place that’s a work in progress. And, like everything, it’s “always changing, never the same” (Robert Irwin on his Central Garden at The Getty). What I’m grateful for is that it provided a place that not only got her, but also fully embraced her, in all her being… “whole, able, and beautiful, just as she is and just as she is not.” The journey was and remains challenging, yet the relationships she made there have sustained and supported her far beyond expectations. I’ve long known that my kids (and now my students) stand amongst my greatest teachers. She and her time at Bridges have helped me to deeply come to understand myself and uncover the parts of me that I’d submerged for too long. The place took me in too. And that is the rich gift she has given me. #lifelonglearners #rainforestmind #alwayschangingneverthesame #thejourney #theway #elcamino 📍Tongva (Gabrielino) Land (at Studio City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiG109bLq7fT_5XRyz2ROfVVYAzeDKNtAe4krU0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

As he writes (see comments), this can be scary as all bejeebus. At the end of her podcast, #unlockingus, @brenebrown asks her guests some superb “rapid fire” questions. I like to imagine how I’d reply when I’m a guest someday. One is, “What is something people often get wrong about you?” That came to me last night as I listened to her interviewing @justinablakeney: That what I do in this world is not defined by the pigeonhole that was my last position. This can be extremely frustrating. The classic example was when I was once looking for work. Well -meaning people kept suggesting QA roles for me simply because that was the one of the last functions I’d performed when I left a startup. I’d engaged in myriad roles, many simultaneously, in the very early phases of this dynamic environment. The irony was that I left, in part, precisely because the company was beginning to evolve toward a more pigeonholed corporate structure. On some ways, I’m in a similar place, and despite much experience here, it’s still scary as fuck. Yet I carry on, knowing that “to thine own self be true” is critical to fulfillment and contentment. I’d rather be uncomfortable that live a lie. #multipotentialite #rainforestmind https://www.instagram.com/p/ChTTHTDJONUJXlzCk7r3TESDbe-dMsbqh1jSF00/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Relatable to several years in the life of a person possessing the beautiful complexity of a #rainforestmind. Eloquently expressed by @kaitlinmchan #Repost @kaitlinmchan with @use.repost ・・・ Before the pandemic, my tendency was to fill my days with things to do, projects to work on, people to see. Especially because it seemed to help fill this bottomless emptiness I feel inside most of the time. But I’m getting more and more comfortable with silence, solitude and self-reflection. It dosen’t mean I don’t still love dancing and seeing people, but that when I do, I’m there because I want to be, and not just because I’m avoiding being alone with my thoughts. https://www.instagram.com/p/CgKT_tTJN_Pd4ereZUXZ8BIgXMkMZNpis2o-Vs0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The untapped reserve of #rainforestmind, #multipotentialite, and #twiceexceptional folx is vast. How much would the world be a better place if we nurtured and accepted them a bit more? Rather than being sometimes persuaded ranging to sometimes bullied by the cocksure bravado and machismo that manifests in patriarchal and capitalist structures? Repost via @AdamMGrant https://www.instagram.com/p/CXhHvx4v5aS03KCOdfPmQjKmem3nbFjzBF2e6g0/?utm_medium=tumblr

The untapped reserve of #rainforestmind, #multipotentialite, and #twiceexceptional folx is vast. How much would the world be a better place if we nurtured and accepted them a bit more? Rather than being sometimes persuaded ranging to sometimes bullied by the cocksure bravado and machismo that manifests in patriarchal and capitalist structures? Repost via @AdamMGrant https://www.instagram.com/p/CXhHvx4v5aS03KCOdfPmQjKmem3nbFjzBF2e6g0/?utm_medium=tumblr

I’m starting to describe this as RTS: #Rainforestmind Trance State. Or the #Multipotentialite Hustle. @paulaprober https://www.instagram.com/p/CXRel-Uv5cr-e9GUvNigJJMVLV4k_VRqr3C7TU0/?utm_medium=tumblr

Shirley Manson’s brilliantly, poignantly, and beautifully raw post. If you are highly sensitive, an empath, a #multipotentialite, have a #rainforestmind, are #twiceexceptional or simply just FEEL your world, please take time to read what she has to say. I needed not only to hear such a perspective (once again) for myself, but also for others with whom I am providing support. #comingalongside #wearenotaloneonthisjourney #Repost @garbage ・・・ I don’t know what to tell you. I was such a sullen teenage girl. Drowning always in “feelings “. I was always accused of being “too sensitive “ too much, too this - too that. I didn’t know back then there existed ways to articulate feelings of frustration and rage so instead I became a surreptitious cutter. Hurting myself made me feel better. There was change. There was result. Sometime later in life, when I started to write , I began to learn how to better express myself. The next thing I learned was that it wasn’t me who was too sensitive. It was others who in fact were too INSENSITIVE. It was the world at large that was hard, uncaring and afraid - mostly of feeling anything at all. There is an invested desire in ignoring reality and global suffering to maintain the status quo. The world didn’t and still doesn’t want to look at climate change , racism ,sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, trans folk, disabled folk, world hunger, homelessness , domestic and sexual violence, animal rights etc for that would require their own comfort to be challenged, shaken and disturbed which in turn demands effort and change. To ignore what is happening in the world as though nothing dangerous or hateful is going on is for so many people currently unaffected by threats or hate, the safer and preferred response. Now I am 55 I am grateful that I can see and that I can feel. I am grateful that I am able to experience empathy and sympathy. I am thrilled I possess an imagination and am able to nurture a capacity to love. I want to see change in my lifetime. I want a better life for those who don’t have an easy one. And I want in doing so to acknowledge that I am no longer such a sullen girl. It wasn’t me all along then- it was THEM. https://www.instagram.com/p/CXHZfUcPfcE4W0Mqz75Pr_-oj1XNFCvLI6gnv00/?utm_medium=tumblr