Author: clfuu

National Coming Out Day was envisioned as a way for LGBT folk to “take the next step” in being open in expressing the truth of their identity. But we all have ways we hide, and we all have ways we could take the next step in being vulnerable enough to tell our personal truth.

What would you like us to know about you?

“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”
―Shannon L. Alder

How have you let someone in a position of vulnerability know that they weren’t alone?

Sadly, the Columbus Day holiday is pretty much the utmost in white supremacy, celebrating a man who perpetrated devastation upon the denizens of the land he “discovered.” Indigenous People’s Day is a way to honor both the strength and the vulnerability of those who have managed to survive in the face of atrocities.

Who lived on the land where you are now before the white people arrived?

“…that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.”
―Audre Lorde

When have you summoned up courage to allow yourself to be visible in a new way?

“We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.”
―David Abram

Which of your senses opens you the most deeply to your environment?