How it’s felt ‘disappearing’ for a while: Being the fruiting body is *almost* akin to being an outward facing manifestation of a complex network of people. I have a lot of admiration for mushrooms but I don’t want to be one without the context of being part of something bigger 🍄 Movements are made by people, and cannot be sustained without the interweaving of individuals with a common goal - no matter the method (as Loretta Ross says, people doing the same thing for a common goal is a cult, but with different theories of change, and ways of thinking, heading in the same direction is a movement!). I want whatever network I’m part of to be built on the understanding that I’m really not that important. I tell myself ‘It’s not just you’. Being quieter on here is an important reminder for me to take a step back from whatever it is that public engagement serves this movement. Understanding that I’m not important enough for the work to continue is paramount. And it makes me think of what @vanessanakate says about rest 💗 that someone somewhere will continue. It’s of course with the understanding that I’m not tapping out 😉 hence trying to do this sustainably Resting has been very hard. In part because it’s been somewhat superseded by an urgent need to address some health problems. But throughout this whole kerfuffle I’ve come away feeling a lot more at ease with my role in spaces. I’ve become a lot closer to people I love dearly. And of course spent much time writing, reading, sleeping, resting and healing. Here’s to more mycelia AND on the occasion of being a fruiting body, being part of something so much bigger than what meets the eye 👁