Patience, aka fractal Forming Storming Norming Performing. Yesterday I was in a circle where someone said something like, Okay, I’m learning that what I shared (10 minutes ago or something) created more distance and division in the group, and that’s not what I want. I could totally see where they were coming from, with the immediate reactions they got. Meanwhile, looking around, it really looked to me like we were much closer as a group than we’d been before that share and the resulting reactions and etc. It reminded me that sometimes it takes patience to see the impacts we’re having on each other, and if we judge too quickly (as I know I’ve done countless times in my life), we’ll miss out on the beauty we help create when we bring truth and love.

Forming Storming Norming Performing–it’s kinda happening a little bit all the time fractally or something. I imagine there’s a better description of it than that, but that’s one way of pointing to what I mean.