Stay soft

Softness is an illusion.

Softness can be mistaken as less than or weak.

What if softness is a devotion? A dogged determination to stay human in the face of indignity, uncertainty, and fear.

What if softness is a posture? A well-honed strength, an external scaffolding signaling a potential for connection and possibility.

What if softness is a skill? Practiced quietly in the liminal space known to the hurt, grieving, and brokenhearted.

What if softness is a superpower? The real strength that will outlast sharpness, quickness, and force.

What if our softness is what the world actually needs as systems are dying and something new is being born?

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