Softness is an illusion.
Softness can be mistaken as less than or weak.
What if softness is a devotion? A dogged determination to stay human in the face of indignity, uncertainty, and fear.
What if softness is a posture? A well-honed strength, an external scaffolding signaling a potential for connection and possibility.
What if softness is a skill? Practiced quietly in the liminal space known to the hurt, grieving, and brokenhearted.
What if softness is a superpower? The real strength that will outlast sharpness, quickness, and force.
What if our softness is what the world actually needs as systems are dying and something new is being born?
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Thirteen years ago, I clicked “publish” on the LoveYou2 blogspot, sharing the LoveYou2 flier with the world. My invitation then (and now) asked strangers to download the flier, print it, post it, and share their #GetLoveGiveLove story. I dreamed of sprinkling the world with love notes and geotagging each posted sign on the LoveYou2 blog to catalog places love had arrived.
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