I love that Lorde says excellence "must not be misconstrued as demanding the impossible from ourselves nor from others". I am in a place of reframing that for myself. I lived so long pursuing the impossible - sometimes I even achieved it, but at great cost to my mental and physical health. How does it look to pursue excellence when you're not driving yourself into the ground? Thanks for sharing this.
Oof! The quote from Eula Bliss is stirring: "a rejection ... that the central project of our lives is to undo our own precarity. It's a refusal of a way of life devoted to insurance." I'll be chewing on this for some time. How brave especially without the holding of community. And yet, what it arises for me (especially in this age of hyper-individualism) is that to be oriented this way requires a surrendering to something larger.
To Encourage Excellence
I love that Lorde says excellence "must not be misconstrued as demanding the impossible from ourselves nor from others". I am in a place of reframing that for myself. I lived so long pursuing the impossible - sometimes I even achieved it, but at great cost to my mental and physical health. How does it look to pursue excellence when you're not driving yourself into the ground? Thanks for sharing this.
I really loved this (e.g., I subscribed in order to comment). Thank you for sharing your "less formal" writing! Looking forward to more.
Oof! The quote from Eula Bliss is stirring: "a rejection ... that the central project of our lives is to undo our own precarity. It's a refusal of a way of life devoted to insurance." I'll be chewing on this for some time. How brave especially without the holding of community. And yet, what it arises for me (especially in this age of hyper-individualism) is that to be oriented this way requires a surrendering to something larger.
Tara, thank you so much for sharing such valuable information. I may interested in your podcast class in the future. Thank you again, LA@FlyingBRA