In Situ is a project of Health, Wellness, Meaning, and Community Building. Collaboratively working toward how we can improve as individuals, in relationship to one another, and within our communities. Recognizing from a realistic standpoint of what we have, and where we are, right now.
Paula’s Core Values: Be Brave, Practice Grace, Love Others
Every human being has something to offer; a gift to give. I believe that we have great potential to do good and be good but that sometimes our environment can discourage us from that potential. I have always sought out community oriented groups and organizations because I understood that those things enhance a person’s sense of meaning.
“You were not just born to center your entire existence on work and labor. You were born to heal, to grow, to be of service to yourself and community, to practice, to experiment, to create, to have space, to dream, and to connect.” ― Tricia Hersey
Given our present-day trend toward optimization of productivity, but minimization of the things that reinforce our sense of meaning, belonging, or indispensability, I believe it’s incredibly important to do what I can to assist in more opportunity for the aforementioned meaning, belonging and indispensability in the community at large.
The growing sense of human disposability either in body or in relation to other human beings magnifies the sense of despair and shrinks the sense of meaning that people might have.
This means we are all responsible to our fellow human beings to reflect on the cognitive biases we might have that would contribute to despair and damage a sense of belonging; an important element of meaning.
“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.”― Marcel Proust
We often come to understanding like we use a favorite hand tool, with use, it must be sharpened, honed, and oiled, but we also need to recognize when the task at hand doesn’t call for that same tool, we need to make room in our workshop for more tools and find skill with them. I remind myself to focus on the ‘ing’ as in learning, adapting, growing, living, listening, and appreciating. That work is never done as life is ever changing.
Curiosity, focus, attention, reflection, intro and extrospection are plants in a garden that should not be neglected.
A Variety of Guidelines for Process in Community
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