Shannon Willis on Substack
Soft Rebellion Part One Apologies for my absence, after emerging from a profound wintering practice, I emerged in the maelstrom of sickness, political upheaval and a notice that the beloved land I have known for 14 years has been sold to hedge funders, those opportunistic gentrifiers who have no issues displacing single families for swaths of apartments complexes, or Air B&B’s. In these times, I can throw myself in completely—so completely that I fray the edges of my own wiring, my nervous system stretched thin like a lightning rod, catching too many currents, too many storms. And so I am writing this for everyone who, like me, has tried to outrun the fire only to become the kindling. Who knows the high of going all in, only to crash, emptied out. We need a different strategy—one that doesn’t just burn, but smolders, spreads, takes root. One that knows endurance is...
