Upcoming events:

• Saturday May 30 (open): Being With It All @Relational Dojo (2 of 5)
• Sunday May 31: Community Call 22.8
• Friday June 5 (open): IS Connection Call
• Sunday June 21: Quarterly Convening of the IS Web

The previous newsletter was What kind of Web? and last Sunday's Community Call was "What's really present?".

It's been a long day — both in hours and in mental-queue-of-TODOs. I feel it now, in my eyes and back and mind as I sit down again to write tonight. I notice that "long day" carries no-more-than-miniscule valence: neither bad nor good. I notice a sense of smallness in my mental capacity, and have gut-level rejected a couple more ambitious topics I had been contemplating writing.

I am being with that right now. If we were together in the same moment, we could just be. Just sit and be and we'd make it work in the energetic exchange between us. Find the flow. Hmm, but I can't sense you right now. And you are a collective to me. Yet that's always true. I'm always just here with my experience. I have been with that, what is it, ~280 times. I am showing up, being a beacon, like a lighthouse signaling that there's something over here. The message-underneath-the-messages accumulates in the repetition.

Consider this an ad for Being With It All on Saturday, I guess.

Anyway, resistance really is 99% of suffering, isn't it. Turning away is the disconnection. Welcoming is such an overpowered move. Welcoming as a way of life. Okay, tiredness — let's go to bed.

Cheers,
James