Sometimes excellent poetry appears in the most unlikely of places, something we all should help happen more often. Kristen Darling today posted a lovely and insightful piece on LinkedIn. It begins:

«How to Have the Life You Want

One day, I hope to stop interrogating my peace.
I will stop demanding peace turn out its pockets
and to keep its hands where I can see them.
I will stop inserting anxiety
where I spent a few moments …»

Read the rest here (no account required, do it in an incognito window if LinkedIn's corporateness bugs you):

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kristen-darling-50921813b_mentalhealthmatters-mentalhealth-activity-7440068320231591936-9x4h/

#poetry #poem #life #philosophy #peace #happiness #contentment #sufficiency #enough #enoughness #anxiety #depression #MentalHealth

"Love turns money into connection." That line is everything. 💜

Some people talk about "getting" rich, but the biggest secret is this: You never have to wait for money to prove you are worthy. That worth is already finished.

Money is just a friendly mirror. If you feel peaceful, grateful, and complete inside, money shows you completeness outside.

You don't earn the flow; you simply remember it from a place of quiet knowing.

The strongest magnet you have is not a bank account—it’s the feeling of already having enough. That peaceful, open feeling starts right in your body. 🤍

Arigato, money, for teaching us that true wealth begins as a simple feeling of safety. 🌿

Inspired reflection after reading Ken Honda's Happy Money (book).

#HappyMoney #Abundance #Enoughness

There’s a quiet relief in remembering that responsibility can be shared.

The scale of change we’re living through is real — but it was never meant to land on individual shoulders alone. When everything feels personal, exhaustion follows. When responsibility is shared, something else becomes possible.

This line makes room for collective steadiness instead of private overwhelm.

#HomelessInTheAgora #CollectiveCare #Enoughness #NaomiKlein #LifeboatAcademy

Rob Hopkins puts it plainly; the scale that might actually matter is community — neighbours, groups, circles choosing to respond together.

This is where we break wetiko’s isolation and build the kind of resilience that can hold real change.

It doesn’t have to be grand.
It just has to be shared.

#LifeboatAcademy #CommunityAction #LocalResilience #Enoughness #AutumnEarth #RobHopkins

Wetiko lives where excess begins — the moment a feeling tips into “more” and becomes a way to avoid what’s real.
Power, comfort, ego, ambition, anger — none of it is wrong, until we reach for it to numb instead of feel.

Excess becomes poison when it helps us escape ourselves.

The practice isn’t glamorous:
Notice the extra.
Feel the itch.
Choose what steadies, not what soothes.

This is how we break the cycle.

#WetikoHabitus #Enoughness #LifeboatAcademy #CollectiveMaturity

A handful of earth.
A tree that stands by itself.
A hand that will one day be gone.

Hold on to what is good.

#LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery #Crowfoot #EarthWisdom #Reciprocity #RelationalGoods #SlowResilience #Enoughness #EcologicalMaturity #Degrowth