Wordsmith Challenge 3

List the 5 people you spend the most time with. How have they affected your behaviors, thought, and life?

Randy Brock: n, 44, WM, spouse

He role models how to be an awesome human in the waves of COVID19. He works out, drives for meals on wheels, hosts podcasts, and does the weather. He gives the best hugs, is supporting our boys’ interests by building a fowl coop and talking video games.

Andrew Brock: n, 16, WM son

This guy. Smart, funny, thoughtful, and dialed in. When he sits on the deck and tells me all that he knows, I settle into the warmth of his stories.

Owen Brock: n, 13, WM, son

This guy. Razor sharp wit, conscientious, and empathetic. He smiles and this glint in his eye bubbles up from his spirit and I know something delightful or wicked is about to emerge.

Work team: n, amazing dedicated women

They push to address the inequities of our community in a way that gets shit done. I know we are better because they are working collaboratively and supportively across the community.

HFB: n, amazing, funny, smart group of women that I am so lucky to call friends

We keep us all accountable to being our most authentic, kick ass selves. We are different and yet collectively, a sisterhood.

“Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”

CHIEF SEATTLE

And my list goes on to include my extended family, my extended network, my collaborative partners, all the people who are aching to do some good in our community, to make someone’s life better, if only for today. They all make me better, make me reflective, make me whole.

The web we weave is what matters in the end. The goodness of people connected and pulsing through the community-wide story. We are truly, better together.