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Raising Us they say we raise our children but i say we raise each other and that many times like today it feels to me like our children are raising us to higher levels greater good deeper love wiser action some backstory yesterday evening we were eating ice cream on the stoop and a text comes in and she says yes to her first job and promptly has to figure out how much do i charge? as much as i can get? as much as they are able? a fair price according to such and such? i say, what’s the going rate? just charge that don’t undersell yourself she says, no that doesn’t feel right there has to be more to this and so she talks with her mom and she listens to her gut and they work with numbers and they work with feelings and they work with values and they work with others and they work with layer upon layer until i hear i’ve decided! i’m going to charge less than i could because i want to because i know them because they’re like family because it feels right to me because i would do it for free and i realize that she’s raising me raising us and reminding me this morning that i’ve spent my own life loving living so much that there hasn’t been a time or a job where i didn’t feel that i would be happy doing it for free that something happens that we cannot see when we give more than we receive like an extended exhale the whole body relaxes and stops fighting and starts trusting and starts receiving more of just what it needs yes there must be balance but the values of this equation are much easier to reconcile when the body and mind are giving more than receiving just ask the man trying to let go of a lifetime of taking, taking, taking trying to let go of a near-constant, striving, reaching, grasping, holding trying to stop inhaling trying to stop just inhaling trying to stop only inhaling trying to learn to let go trying to muster up the trust to e x h a l e his way in to that which cannot be taken