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| Temporary hospital tents in Greenburg, Kansas, following tornado. October 2007. Credit: Mzuriana. |
In June, I applied the acronym, Face Everything And Rise.
August shares similarities: Face Everything And Recover.
But where rising is a letting go - a release - recovery requires remediation.
It requires a series of actions. Perhaps some pain. Certainly discomfort. Most definitely fear.
In recovery - with its requisite remediation - I can only control my process, with no control over the outcomes. There's the faith that recovery will result, in some manner, although perhaps not in the way I might have imagined.
Recovery likely means I have to listen to uncomfortable truths - or if not truths, someone else's beliefs in what is true about me and about us, about our past, our present, and our future. I will want to make informed decisions about how - and if - to rebuild relationships ripped by storms.
Recovery almost certainly requires that I act differently and that I think differently in future. And that, in turn, will result in others making an informed decision about how they wish to proceed.
As much as many of us would like to think we can do so, it's not likely that I'll be able to "figure things out" on my own. As a 12-stepper said once: "We can't pull ourselves out of quicksand by our hair."
So I will need an experienced trail blazer to help me find the path. I will remember the stobor.
The 2023 word of the year thus far
- January: FEAR: Looking Into the Abyss Without Falling In
- February: FEAR: Fuck Everything And Run
- March: FEAR: Forgetting Everything's All Right
- April: FEAR: Take More Risks
- May: FEAR: Feelings Expressed Allow Relief
- June: FEAR: Face Everything And ... Rise
- July: FEAR: Frustration, Ego, Anxiety, Resentment
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