The multitude of ancestral lines at our backs are powerful shaping forces in our lives.

But there is both gift and wound here. We have both blessings and burdens inside these lines, and part of living now is to come into relationship with both.

Resiliency fundamentally links us up with the good of the whole.

It connects our wellbeing, our safety, our vitality to the vibrancy and life force of the collective, including the more-than-human beings.

We can know things and want things and still fail to do them, no? We can intend things, or say we care about something, and *do* something entirely different. We are always practicing something…