I heard this quote earlier this week, and I’ve been sitting with these words from Octavia Butler:

“There’s no end to what a living world will demand of you.”

This feels so filled with truth.

That the world is alive + asks things of us.

How the work we’re here to do is deep + evolving + never done.

How our home is a living being that calls us to creative + responsive relationship with where we are + who we’re becoming.

It feels like our living world is demanding a lot from us right now.

But these aren’t the demands of capitalism -- to do more + work harder + deny what’s real within + around us for the sake of profit + production.

These are demands my soul *wants* to do. To hold + translate vision. To imagine a world where we center human flourishing. To heal + care + nourish more. To love people (self included) harder. To learn + unlearn + relearn. To live deeper. To make things. To become our real + big + powerful selves.

These are the sorts of demands that are required to cultivate beloved community + deepen our souls + participate in the project of our collective aliveness.

I'm so grateful to our living world for always calling us to something deeper + truer + more expansive (and never giving up on that project) -- and so thankful to be in community with some incredible humans who are stepping forward to meet the demands of this moment in some really beautiful ways.