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A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “Don’t just do something, sit there.” — Sylvia Boorstein

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “Don’t just do something, sit there.” — Sylvia Boorstein

Urgency trains us to move first.

This line lingers at the moment before that — where practice actually starts.

#HomelessInTheAgora #PracticeIsThePoint #sylviaboorstein

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A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.” — Wendell Berry

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.” — Wendell Berry

At the solstice Berry offers this image: a body moving through cold and danger, sowing clover anyway.

Not denial.
Not optimism.
Just tending life in season.

Happy Solstice, steady, present.

#WinterSolstice #HomelessInTheAgora #WendellBerry

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A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “All flourishing is mutual.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “All flourishing is mutual.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer

The agora trains us to think in individual terms.
Living systems don’t.

Flourishing happens in relationship — shared, mutual, interdependent.

#HomelessInTheAgora #MutualFlourishing #RobinWallKimmerer

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A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “We have to change everything. But you personally do not have to do everything.” — Naomi Klein

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “We have to change everything. But you personally do not have to do everything.” — Naomi Klein

Some relief in this: change is real and necessary — and it was never meant to be carried by one person alone.

Shared problems ask for shared presence.

#HomelessInTheAgora #CollectiveCare #NaomiKlein

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A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” — Simone Weil

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” — Simone Weil

In a culture shaped by speed and extraction, attention is no small thing. Real attention alters a space.
It slows things down. When it’s offered without agenda, the room changes.

#HomelessInTheAgora #Attention #SimoneWeil #LifeboatAcademy

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A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.” — Fernando Pessoa

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.” — Fernando Pessoa

Not all wounds come from conflict.
Some come from what we adapted to, stayed inside, or learned to endure.

#HomelessInTheAgora #fernandopessoa #BodyMemory

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Homeless in the Agora The Wisdom of Agoraphobia

If “business as usual” feels unbearable, your body may not be broken — it may be discerning.

The agora has always been a place of extraction. No wonder we long for oikos: care, land, belonging.

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#HomelessInTheAgora #Oikos

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