Billion Bacteria

Resilience. Elasticity. Flexibility. Ability to cope. To feel grounded. Cultivating rich, healthy soil with billions of living organisms. Billions. How do we create the soil for our own life? Building over time with dark compost that crumbles in our hands. Nurturing friendships. Feeding nutrients. Weaving connections in community. So that there is somewhere to plant seeds that allows them to grow. And waiting. Patiently waiting. Tending. Supporting. Watering. Creating space in time for new ideas, for something to emerge. Something coming out of nothing. Creating art, writing an email, making a film, building a project, planning a presentation, anything that requires generating, must first come out of nothing. And we so often try to navigate through our life planting seeds in cement. In dry soil. In drought. Wondering why nothing grows. Why we keep hitting against a surface. New possibilities grow in soil. In dark, rich, soil that is alive and thriving. And we must hold that space open, despite the anxiety and fear that wants to rush in. We hold the space, trusting, standing grounded, having faith that something will emerge. And it is in that space where we find ourselves, our own vulnerability, and our own strength.

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