This is a really beautiful way of reframing the concept of boundaries to something that isn't just helpful but completely necessary and essential to our nature. I'm one of those people who struggles with setting healthy boundaries from time to time, although I've come a long way. So anything that helps me see boundaries as useful is welcome!
Thank you, Sophie. I’ve also had to learn my way through this. Along the way, I’ve come to understand how vital healthy boundaries are to my wellbeing. I’ve also learned how to flex the muscle because, like so many other choices and behaviors, it’s a muscle. 🩷
This is gorgeous. To say 'nature has so much to teach us' is almost trite in the shadow of such a piece. If we understood boundaries (collectively) we would not be destroying so much of the earth. Her gentle (and more recently not so gentle) ways of illustrating her boundaries are falling on deaf, greedy ears. But if we can learn to listen in time, and perhaps learn where we end and everything (and everyone) else begins, we might just survive as a species. Whether we do or not won't matter one bit to this earth in the long-term. If only you had a mailing list of 8.24B people, Wendy. They all need to hear this as much as I did.
Mark, Thank you so much for this! This is my first post with only one comment at this point in the day. I was starting to wonder about the piece itself and now I’m wondering whether people are afraid of boundaries? 🤣 (So thank you for being here.)
Yes, we are not listening nor have we been for far too long—and both our health and that of the planet are suffering. (If only I had a mailing list 8.24K or 824! :))
I had an interesting exchange with a surfer in Baja forever ago about how the earth will go on. You might find it entertaining.
This is a really beautiful way of reframing the concept of boundaries to something that isn't just helpful but completely necessary and essential to our nature. I'm one of those people who struggles with setting healthy boundaries from time to time, although I've come a long way. So anything that helps me see boundaries as useful is welcome!
Thank you, Sophie. I’ve also had to learn my way through this. Along the way, I’ve come to understand how vital healthy boundaries are to my wellbeing. I’ve also learned how to flex the muscle because, like so many other choices and behaviors, it’s a muscle. 🩷
It really is, and the more we do it and realise the world doesn't end when we set a boundary the easier it becomes!
Indeed!! 💪
This is gorgeous. To say 'nature has so much to teach us' is almost trite in the shadow of such a piece. If we understood boundaries (collectively) we would not be destroying so much of the earth. Her gentle (and more recently not so gentle) ways of illustrating her boundaries are falling on deaf, greedy ears. But if we can learn to listen in time, and perhaps learn where we end and everything (and everyone) else begins, we might just survive as a species. Whether we do or not won't matter one bit to this earth in the long-term. If only you had a mailing list of 8.24B people, Wendy. They all need to hear this as much as I did.
Mark, Thank you so much for this! This is my first post with only one comment at this point in the day. I was starting to wonder about the piece itself and now I’m wondering whether people are afraid of boundaries? 🤣 (So thank you for being here.)
Yes, we are not listening nor have we been for far too long—and both our health and that of the planet are suffering. (If only I had a mailing list 8.24K or 824! :))
I had an interesting exchange with a surfer in Baja forever ago about how the earth will go on. You might find it entertaining.
I absolutely would!
Funny, I thought I added it up above. Here it is:
https://splashed.substack.com/p/the-election-as-a-powerful-dropkick?r=2cc9mz