This touched me so deeply. I love the way you weaved the very real, almost comic unraveling of executive function with this much larger reorientation of mind and self. I’m especially moved by the idea that you’re not losing capacity so much as inhabiting a more collective, porous intelligence- one that our culture doesn’t know how to value, let alone name. The image of “interdependent Jello” and of mind as something braided between bodies, rooms, ecosystems… it softened something in me. Thank you for naming this stage with so much honesty and wonder. It made me feel less alone in the wobble.
This touched me so deeply. I love the way you weaved the very real, almost comic unraveling of executive function with this much larger reorientation of mind and self. I’m especially moved by the idea that you’re not losing capacity so much as inhabiting a more collective, porous intelligence- one that our culture doesn’t know how to value, let alone name. The image of “interdependent Jello” and of mind as something braided between bodies, rooms, ecosystems… it softened something in me. Thank you for naming this stage with so much honesty and wonder. It made me feel less alone in the wobble.
Oh I’m so happy to hear that you’re in the Jello with me!!
And you’re absolutely right, it’s stepping into an expansive and relationship intelligence AND power.
Thanks for reading 💗