Gabriel, this reached me deeply. I have come to trust silence as one of my clearest teachers. It often strips life down to its essence and lets me hear the next small step beneath all the noise.
Recently, silence has been telling me: stay and become.
I am still listening for what that means — how much of me has already become, how much is still unfolding, and whether becoming is sometimes less about striving and more about staying long enough to meet what has been quietly forming all along.
“The absence of something to say is itself information” — yes. Silence is not empty. It is full of what has not yet found words.
Thank you for this beautiful share. The depiction of your home, your rooting, the fact that there is nowhere to run anymore. Beautiful. Touching in fact. I can feel you.
I was born in France. Never felt I belong there. In fact I even start doubting I belong to human species at all. So I have never felt home anywhere. I think I have the genes of a nomad. Someone the winds of life blow here and there...
I am not thinking of leaving the US because of fear of the imminent downfall. On the contrary, I have wondered many time if it was not my work to witness yet another collapse like I have witnessed so many before.
i would say my primary concern is to pay taxes in a country that I disapprove so much of the way they use my contribution. I could also stop paying taxes, but here that would probably lead me to prison even faster than murder.
but beyond that, I am following instincts here , always seeking further alignment with the flow of life... and I have felt an increase sense of discomfort being here.
so the feeling of home for me is probably not in a physical place for this lifetime. More like a sense of being in the right place at the right time. And when that feeling is present I know it well...
I am not advocating for everyone to do the same. I appreciate and deeply respect your stance of saying I am here. It is home and I am ok to die here if it is my story. While at the same time when people ask me "what have you learn from collapse?" I usually say, mobility, adaptability, spontaneity are the keys to navigate collapse. But hese word can be interpreted in many ways.
From Wild Altar @ritualtable —
Our work?
To protect the quiet long enough
to hear it.
Yes. Thank you.
🙏🏼
(..........................................) Thank you.
Even silence can be packaged and sold.
It is so fricking hard to simply be in place and let the stillness wash over you.
Gabriel, this reached me deeply. I have come to trust silence as one of my clearest teachers. It often strips life down to its essence and lets me hear the next small step beneath all the noise.
Recently, silence has been telling me: stay and become.
I am still listening for what that means — how much of me has already become, how much is still unfolding, and whether becoming is sometimes less about striving and more about staying long enough to meet what has been quietly forming all along.
“The absence of something to say is itself information” — yes. Silence is not empty. It is full of what has not yet found words.
this:
“less about striving and more about staying long enough to meet what has been quietly forming all along”
🙏 🙏 🙏
Simplicity in all things. You will know when it is time to act.
Psalm 46, verse 10: “Be still, and know that I am God.”
https://kathleenmccroskey.substack.com/cp/200918572
Thank you 🙏🏻✨
i an world where procrastination is a curse, asking people to sit and do nothing for a while seems crazy, and yet so much can come out of the pause…
I am happy you could loosened by the end… even though I did not intend to do that! 🤣
Thank you for this beautiful share. The depiction of your home, your rooting, the fact that there is nowhere to run anymore. Beautiful. Touching in fact. I can feel you.
I was born in France. Never felt I belong there. In fact I even start doubting I belong to human species at all. So I have never felt home anywhere. I think I have the genes of a nomad. Someone the winds of life blow here and there...
I am not thinking of leaving the US because of fear of the imminent downfall. On the contrary, I have wondered many time if it was not my work to witness yet another collapse like I have witnessed so many before.
i would say my primary concern is to pay taxes in a country that I disapprove so much of the way they use my contribution. I could also stop paying taxes, but here that would probably lead me to prison even faster than murder.
but beyond that, I am following instincts here , always seeking further alignment with the flow of life... and I have felt an increase sense of discomfort being here.
so the feeling of home for me is probably not in a physical place for this lifetime. More like a sense of being in the right place at the right time. And when that feeling is present I know it well...
I am not advocating for everyone to do the same. I appreciate and deeply respect your stance of saying I am here. It is home and I am ok to die here if it is my story. While at the same time when people ask me "what have you learn from collapse?" I usually say, mobility, adaptability, spontaneity are the keys to navigate collapse. But hese word can be interpreted in many ways.
Love