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“we have this built-in system of contempt. It’s a mutual reciprocal system of contempt in our culture between intensives and expansives.” It’s February, and our...

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“It doesn’t matter why someone doesn’t have housing, what matters is that they need housing.” Healthcare outcomes are tied to housing. So shouldn’t we include adequate, autonomous housing as a way to improve the overall...
So often we know what we need to do… but how do we do it? How do we remove barriers and make it easy for ourselves to do the things we know we need to...
“When you know what you need, you can ask for it, or you can work toward it, or you can invite it….” Well, that seems simple enough, right? But how do we actually know what...
“It’s about overestimating the need. And under estimating the capacity.” Knowing our capacity, making realistic guesses about how hard things are going to be- even the things that “shouldn’t” be hard- it’s the work of...
Join Leela Sinha for a walk through the woods and a meditation on knowing, and hurting, and scrubbing away the aches and scars that live inside us. Full transcript and notes: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/heres-what-i-know recorded 11 October...
On rediscovering, and creating, active communities: places that people miss. transcript and notes: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/a-place-that-people-miss
The exact right pen. The exact right paper. The exact right app. The exact right tools for the job. Are they a necessity? Not always. Can we get the job done with a scratchy pencil...
It’s 2023 and… we’re not making resolutions. We are making connections: with our breath, with the sky, with each other, with the earth. And we are seeing that this time may be the time when...
Stubbornness is a gift and a survival tool. But there are other ways to be smart and good in the world. And one of our gifts as intensives is knowing or intuiting how to respond...
“You are not a disappointment. You are a joy, you are a gift. You are all kinds of unknowable possibility.” Sophia Lyon Fahs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Lyon_Fahs Notes and transcript: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/magic-we-are-part-of-everything Recorded 24 December 2022.