2021: Creating a Lexicon of Future

D is for Deepen

In 2015 Brene Brown published the book Rising Strong:

The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough, often enough, we will fall. Rising Strong is a book about what it takes to get back up and how owning our stories of struggle gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle can be our greatest call to courage and and the clearest path to a wholehearted life. ~ Brene Brown, 2015

I eagerly read the book and found that it delivered all that it promised.

As I continued to discuss it with others, it became clear to me that there was an additional message that was needed to balance the story: we need to root deeply because we can only sustainably rise as high as we root deep.

This thought inspired this message in 2019…

Root & Rise 2019; Image: ‘Inner Space’ by Carlos Quevedo

…and a longer piece in 2021

Seed, Root, Grow, Sustain: Seeding the Garden of Opportunity 2018–2020

And, finally, in the words of a wise grower in West Virginia…