Tend the Sparks Consulting

fractals of resilience

I don’t know what to say about the past several months we’re having, except that I am constantly reminded to take days one moment at a time. Things we can’t control will keep happening and we will keep meeting them the best we can. That is neither reductionist nor putting one’s head in the sand. Collective resilience is made up of individual resilient humans, and resilient humans are made up of moments and choices (adrienne maree brown would call this “fractals”). I felt better after writing down fractals of today, and offer them just in case they ease someone else’s heart a little, too:

• finishing a sweet romp of a book over oatmeal
• scrubbing my old place
• watching a hummingbird build her nest (in a terrible spot, but she’ll figure it out)
• eating a giant cookie
• traipsing around a nearby island and nerding out about nature with a new friend
• figuring out how to open my stupid garage door (I was the stupid one)
• finding a new way to eat the cabbage in my farm box (why does there always seem to be a whole cabbage left, no matter how much you eat?!)
• making a mess in my new kitchen for the first time
• crying at a piece of world news
• remembering the hummingbird nest and smiling

I’d love to hear about y’all’s fractals. Please share! 

-Cheyenne

photo: the hummingbird nest. check out the spider web engineering at the base!