08/05/2025
ACCESSIBILITY.
Undeniably, this is an important and necessary ideal to strive for. In terms of how I am thinking about it today, of course I want what I share and how I present myself to be accessible. I want others to understand the essence of what I’m trying to communicate. In this venue, I also want others to see me as someone who might be trustworthy and competent enough to be of service to walk with them a little or a lot on their journey.
I just think I may have overshot.
I think about the process of writing copy for my website (for similar activities see: stabbing oneself in the eye with a fork, listening to a symphony of nails on the chalkboard or trying to get a two year old to brush their teeth when they’ve decided that THAT will be the hill upon which they will sacrifice their heroic hearts that particular night).
I wanted to write what was in my heart. I wanted to tap into what was my deepest longing to offer to my fellow humans and offer it on the page (screen). Once again, of course I want it to resonate, to even just make sense to others, to a broader audience so that people will read it and think: yes, this a human I want to put my faith in and give money to to provide a meaningful service for me.
The curiosity I’m holding now, though, is at what point does the potency start to leech away? What if by overshooting, the people for whom those words really are aren’t getting to receive the fullness of what they might otherwise hold for them?
So that’s part of this challenge for me in this Facebook-posting-echo-chamber-experiment. What if I risk being not for everyone in the hopes of getting to more fully be for a select few? What if I risk being judged, being seen as too self-important, too wordy, too… I don’t even know, but as someone who’s always tried to go for pretty much just right with everything, whatever comes after that third “too” is no good.
What if I risk putting my words out there uncensored from how I am receiving them from my heart in the hopes that they reach even one person for whom they offer a balm, a reassurance, an insight, an inspiration?
It is with this spirit, that I offer this up today.