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Inspiration! Roundup: Being a Helper, Straw Swarms, and So Much Beauty

Don't Look For Helpers, BE a Helper

You know that Mister Rogers quote people like to pass around in the bad times, that we should always look for the helpers? Well, this article makes a pretty strong argument that this advice was meant for children, not adults. Adults are supposed to BE the helpers. Let's step up, adults!

Bunches of Things on the Isle of Man

Thomas Jackson was invited to the Isle of Man to create work using human-made objects organized or clustered in the manner of animals and insects. Here is his straw swarm:

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Beautiful and Heartbreaking

I get a lot of inspiration from Swiss Miss, a blogger who shares beautiful and interesting things. She recently shared that she has been slowing down in order to spend more time with her father, who is in the hospital, in this short post:

It’s been quiet on here. I realize. I spent the past few days wit

The Joy of Doing Something That Once Seemed Impossible

Last weekend I went backpacking along the Sunshine Coast Trail, a beautiful hut-to-hut trail along the coast of BC. It was a short jaunt of three days and two nights (just a 25km section of the 180km trail), and it was also a pretty big deal.

In the past, I wouldn't have even considered doing something like this. I had zero gear, zero know-how, and thought all hiking was a painful uphill slog. I didn't think I could do it and therefore I had no interest in trying. Why would I want to do a torturous Stairmaster in the woods, after all?

Then I started dating an outdoorsy person and slowly realized that I am actually capable of doing some of this stuff. We went for hikes, and eventually, overnight trips into the wilderness. It turned out I actually enjoyed walking around in the woods! Even with 30 pounds of stuff strapped to my back!

I slowly acquired gear. I also slowly acquired confidence in my ability to slog through the woods, in large part due to my trusty guide. My outdoor…

I Was On a Diversity Panel and I Have Some Thoughts (aka: here are some socks to pull up)

I just got home from a panel discussion called Diversity Versus Decolonization: An Honest Conversation in Technicolour where I was one of the case studies on what happens when a white person in a position of authority gets called out on systemic racism (spoiler alert: they were right) (also, I wrote a little about what I learned from that experience here).

I have some thoughts on the evening.

1) Before heading over, I was reading Anne Lamott's new book Almost Everything, and came across a passage that was an absolutely perfect place to ground myself before participating in this conversation:

"When we are stuck in our convictions and personas, we enter into the disease of having good ideas and being right. My Jesuit friend Tom used to say that he never noticed what he was feeling: only that he was right. We think we have a lock on truth, with our burnished surfaces and articulation, but the bigger we pump ourselves up, the easier we are to prick with a pin. And the bigger we …

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