NinaBurrowes
This is a repost of a piece I wrote nearly 10 years ago. I'm posting it here with a deep smile back at my old self. The depth in the smile is because I love what she wrote. I love where it came from. And I love that I've had the privilege of continuing to walk on the path for nearly another decade and can seem that some of those dreams ARE slowly coming true.
Join me as I share my story of exploring a different path. Inspired by a desire to create change but willing to ask completely different questions, this is the story of what happens when you let go, you shift your attention, and you’re open to finding power in unexpected places.
No one is more surprised than me about the direction my work has recently taken. But sometimes the best journeys aren't the ones with a clear goal in sight that you steadfastly head towards. The best journeys can be meandering. They are the journeys where you follow what emerges in front of you. Where you listen for the path ahead. Where you don't so much decide your route as realise it. I learned…
Part of my process of putting down the master's tools has been to realise that much of how I've been taught to see the world isn't true....
Audre Lorde gifted us the wisdom ' The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house '. For years this gift has been a ground...