sight of. Despite our modern faith in autonomy and independence, the truth is that we are interrelated and utterly dependent on the reactions of others to know who we are. As we journey with Dorothea, Artie and Echo, we will encounter reactions that are judgmental, cruel, and misinterpreted, and others that are suffused with forgiveness, love and longing.
Like these women, we live and discover ourselves for better or worse inside echo chambers, complex patterns of blessings and curses. We can choose how we react to the reactions we receive, of course, and that is the foundation for personal growth and raised consciousness. And more importantly, we can consciously choose how we will react to others. Perhaps the reason eleemosynary sounds strange to our ears is that the we have grown a bit rusty at being charitable towards one another. We can learn to spell this odd word, even learn to repeat the dictionary definition. But we won’t discover its meaning until we become its living embodiment and others begin to describe our presence in their lives as eleemosynary.
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