Love is in the Air Clairity Click-it: Nonprofit Links + Free Resources
Sometimes the world feels inhospitable.
You feel all the ways that you and it don’t fit.
You see what’s missing, how it all could be different.You feel as if you weren’t meant for the world, or the world wasn’t meant for you,
as if the world is “the way it is” and your discomfort with it a problem.So you get timid. You get quiet about what you see.
But what if this?
What if you are meant
to feel the world is inhospitable, unfriendly, off-track
in just the particular ways that you do?The world has a you-shaped hole in it.
It is missing what you see.
It lacks what you know
and so you were called into being.
To see the gap, to feel the pain of it, and to fill it.Filling it is speaking what is missing.
Filling it is stepping into the center of the crowd, into a clearing,
and saying, here, my friends, is the future.You don’t have to do it all, but you do have to speak it.
You have to tell your slice of the truth.
You do have to walk toward it with your choices, with your own being.Then allies and energies will come to you like fireflies swirling around a light.
The roughness of the world, the off-track-ness, the folly that you see,
these are the most precious gifts you will receive in this lifetime.They are not here to distance you from the world,
but to guide you to your contribution to it.The world was made with a you-shaped hole in it.
In that way you are important.
In that way you are here to make the world.
In that way you are called.– Tara Mohr
I share this with you because I’ve been focused on exploring what our newest digital disruption – artificial intelligence — portends. As automation stares us in the eyes, it forces us to confront that which is authentically human. That for which there can be no substitution, however brilliant the programming.
The world has a you-shaped hole without your special gifts and contributions. And that’s what you can bring to your work of repairing the world.
I hope, in some small measure, the Clairity Click-it can help. It exists to bring you a range of voices from across the nonprofit world so you can resource, learn and digest at your own pace, arriving at your own conclusions and giving flight to your own voice. As always, a big thank you to my Clairity Click-it sponsor, Bloomerang, for making it possible for me to spend the hours of time hunting, gathering and choosing the resources I believe will be most useful as you.
Thank you for doing your vital work, and making our world a better place,
Claire
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