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lqb2weekly #180 (22 jan 2023)

lawrence barriner ii
Jan 22
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lqb2weekly #180 (22 jan 2023)

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hey,

wooooooo. 2023! we are here. call me nuts but i think 2023 is gonna be a big year. let’s see what happens.

some quick personal updates:

  • i did my annual reflection retreat in vermont (sunday eve through saturday morning) and it was GLORIOUS. so much review, so many insights, so many dreams and plans emerging. i’m gonna write up some reflections at some point. stay tuned!

  • i am rewriting my personal values this year (something i am tryna do every five years; thx danielle for the guidance and rhythm on that). i did a good first pass on retreat. we’re looking at top values: transformation, intention, and practice; secondary values: love/justice, vision, community, rest, connection/relationship (need to narrow the secondary list). also my friend chris messinger has a great values list that he’s working through this year (which he does every 10 years). enjoy it!

  • song of the year: nah gon do by ashh blackwood (thanks, emet for the rec)

  • i finished the next edit of my book draft yesterday! omgomgomg. we’re not done yet, but it was a big step! i def cried (small c cry) in the middle of cafe nero when i finished. just a bit more editing and then self-publishing and then you can read it (and i can cower in that ‘wtf why did i put that out in public’ feeling lol).

    • cover sneak peak here. thanks, annemarie, for designing!

  • pluto is about to start doing some big work in my rising sign, aquarius, and i’m ready for the ride! hope i can hold on tight (and let go right!) (details if you’re into that sort of thing)

  • i am excited to be launching a second group coaching cohort (details here —> coaching with lawrence). some benefits as named by the folks who were in the pilot cohort in 2022: it’s easier to be vulnerable when someone else is being vulnerable, too; seeing someone else be coached can help surface things you could benefit from working on; being able to debrief being coached is great!

ok! and now so non-personal things:

  • check out and snag the intelligent mischief 2023 calendar. aisha’s collages are »>

  • selma, alabama hit was hit hard by tornadoes earlier this month (news article here). if you have funds to share with folks in a hard spot, directing to the black belt community foundation would be great!

  • my friend ray pang shared this mindful masculinity workbook and it looks great. it’s already sold out once but akpress is offering more. get it while it’s hot!

  • my friend maureen shared this hilarious giving tree alternate ending that’s got EXCELLENT guidance for how to set boundaries.

ok last thought: since this is the first real newsletter in a while, it’s VERY FULL. tread lightly, pick some quick hits, and then keep it moving. :) welcome to 2023, friends. lfg.

on to the things!

(!!) pick of the pack


writing

some things i’ve written since the last newsletter:

  • Jan 14, 2023 | book review: until we reckon by danielle sered

quotes

there is nothing new under the sun. (this month there are SEVENTEEN quotes. i typically aim for like 7-9. if 17 is overwhelming, just pick 3 at random and then keep scrolling past).

It's one year from now. December 2023. The habit you were hoping to build during the year didn't stick. What is the most likely reason it failed? — james clear

The goal of life is to die young — as late as possible! — Ashley Montagu

Power is influence over external events.
Peace is influence over internal events.
— James Clear

When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running. — James Clear

Love… is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Remember that you do not have to be a medicine man in order to do your part to restore wholeness and fullness to a world in dire need. You just have to learn to come home to the magic that waits at the core of your truest Self. — Gibrán Rivera

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt—it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else. — Hal Boyle

I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing — their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights — then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought
. — Jeanette Winterson

Your calendar is a better measure of success than your bank account. — James Clear

If you want to create something but feel it has already been done 1000 times, remember: There is always room for quality. — James Clear

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. — Albert Camus

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. — Buckminster Fuller

Risk is an essential need of the soul. The absence of risk produces a kind of boredom which paralyses in a different way from fear, but almost as much. — Simone Weil

10-year dreams. 5-minute actions.
Where do I want to be in 10 years?
What can I do in the next 5 minutes to contribute to that outcome?
— James Clear

You can graduate with the finest degrees. You can read the most useful books. You can enjoy the loving support of family and friends.
But your degrees can’t take action for you. Your books can’t make the decision for you. Your family can’t live your life for you.
There is no substitute for courage. At some point, you have to make the choice.
— James Clear

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance. — Jeanette Winterson

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Helen Schucman

poetry

interior vision by nikki giovanni

reads

some things i’ve read since the last newsletter:

  • Building Resilient Organizations | The Forge (!!!) - if you read no other article this whole month, read this

  • Vol IV: road rage | Black Ecologie (!!)

  • Vol 6: tales from an exotic land | Black Ecologie

  • How To Know If You're An Interrupter Or A 'Cooperative Overlapper' | HuffPost

  • No Thank You: Why One Foundation Leader Doesn’t Want Gratitude From Grantees | The Chronicle of Philanthropy

  • The Lie of the Butterfly Fable and 4 Tips As Everything Dissolves | The Outside

  • The Light Phone 2 Offers an Escape From the Modern Web, But It’ll Cost You | USA Today

  • Claudine Gay: 5 things to know about Harvard’s first Black president | Yahoo! News

  • 7 Gay Dads on the Intricacies of Queer Fatherhood | Out

  • Twitter abruptly bans all links to Instagram, Mastodon, and other competitors | The Verge

  • The Window of Transformation | Arise Embodiment

  • Yupiit school district shifts to subsistence calendar in effort to center Yup'ik culture | Kyuk (!!)

  • Cultural Differences - Monochronic versus Polychronic | The Articulate CEO (!!)

  • How to get a bundt cake out of the pan | Farm Fresh For Life

  • Do you like to fight? | Gibrán Rivera

  • Can Bed Bugs Survive in Your Car? What You Need to Know | Healthline

  • Wood Stove 101: How To Keep a Wood Stove Burning All Night | MF Fire

  • The 3 Stages of Creosote: What They Mean and How to Remove It | Best Pick Reports

  • The audacity of desire | Building Belonging (!!)

  • Horoscopes for Sun in Capricorn | Chani

  • Understanding ADOS: The Movement to Hijack Black Identity and Weaken Black Unity

  • Homage to Kwanzaa | kuchuqwanzaa

  • Good, giving, and game: Research confirms that Dan Savage’s sex advice works | PsyPost

  • When Did Everyone Get Blue-Light Glasses? | The New York Times

listens

some audio and/or podcasts i’ve listened to since the last newsletter:

  • INTRODUCING: Possibilities of Loving Collaboration with adrienne and Autumn | How to Survive the End of the World

  • Restorative Justice in Education w/ Tomay Douglass | This Restorative Justice Life

  • Back to Wakanda | How to Survive the End of the World

  • How Do I Adapt My Leadership Style as My Team Grows? | Coaching Real Leaders

  • Embracing the Beast Part 1 | The Embodiment Project (!!)

  • Dr. LARRY WARD on Healing the Colonial Mind /296 | For The Wild

  • Love, The Finale | How to Survive the End of the World

  • Chapter 6: The Belly of the Beast, Part I | Mother Country Radicals

  • Chapter 7: The Belly of the Beast, Part II | Mother Country Radicals

  • Chapter 8: Hard Times | Mother Country Radicals

  • Chapter 9: Revolutionary Suicide | Mother Country Radicals

  • Chapter 10: Inheritance | Mother Country Radicals (!!)

  • Introducing: No One is Coming to Save Us | No One is Coming to Save Us

  • EP 10 - Targeted Universalism with john a. powell | Who Belongs? Podcast

  • Episode 22 - Fables, Spells and the Prophetic w/ adrienne maree brown | Gibran’s Podcast (!)

watches

some videos i watched since the last newsletter:

  • i’ve been asking myself these questions since my parents passed. 5 years later, i’m starting to receive my answers…

  • High School Fitness (1962)

  • Gibran Rivera - Coaching Cohort

  • Tobe Nwigwe: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

  • My Approach to Coaching

  • Behind the scenes of a spiritual awakening

  • Building Resilient Organizations

jams

some things i’ve been (aurally) enjoying since the last newsletter:

  • Theo Parrish - Solitary Flight

  • nah gon do by ashh blackwood

  • Danielle Ponder - Some Of Us Are Brave (Official Music Video)

  • Nina Simone - Trouble In Mind

jobs

  • Tzedek Lab | Remote

    • Managing Director | $60k

    • Director of Communications and Resource Sharing | $60k

  • Momentum | Remote

    • Resource Mobilization Director | $75k

    • Content and Engagement Manager | $37k—$75k (PT—FT)

  • Hyde Square Task Force | Boston

    • Afro-Latin Percussion Teaching Artist | $35-45/hour

    • Development and Communications Coordinator | $45-55k

    • Grant Writer | $58k

    • Latin Quarter Manager | $60k

    • Theatre Programs Coordinator | $45-55k

  • Campaign Organizer | Muslim Justice League | $50k + health stipend | Boston

  • Executive Director | WalkBoston | $90-110k | Boston

  • Fiscal Sponsorship Co-Director | Resist | $65k | Remote

  • Baby University Father Facilitator, Childcare & Family Support Services | City of Cambridge Human Service Programs | $37.5/hour | Cambridge, MA

  • Director of Development | Never Again Action | $40-60k | Remote

  • Research Manager | Builders of Color Coalition | $85-95K | Boston, MA

  • Core Consultant/Trainer | Racial Healing Initiative | $20k ($75/hour) | Remote

  • Clean Transportation Program Director | Union of Concerned Scientists | $171,000-$191,000 | Remote

  • Mijente

    • Development Project Manager | $73-77k | Remote

    • Director of Transformational Giving | $80-87k | Remote

  • ICA Group

    • Executive Director for the Fund for Jobs Worth Owning | $95-105k | Remote

    • Director of People and Culture | $75-81k | Northampton, MA

  • Muslim Justice League

    • Campaign Organizer | $50k | Boston

  • Jews for Racial & Economic Justice

    • Executive Director | $80-90k | NYC

    • Lead Organizer | $65-70k | NYC

  • Resident Leadership Coordinator | Boston Neighborhood CLT | $55-65k | Boston

  • Consultant - Program Director | Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions | $140-160k PT

housing

  • hendrix and noah are looking for a roomie

fun-raising

  • Kibilio Community and Farms - Embodied Healing Fellowship

  • selma, alabama - post-tornado contributions to the black belt community foundation

  • priestess of twerk

other opportunities

  • BOSTON ART WRITING FELLOWSHIP

  • Arts & Cultural Organizing Member Team: Micro-Learning Pod Facilitator 2023

  • 2023 Forge Project Fellowship

  • Making it Public: for MA Artists, a free 5-week online training for artists of any discipline who would like to expand their tools to respond to Public Art Calls.

  • Nominations open: 2023 Newell Flather Award for Public Art. This award honors publicly nominated leaders with $5,000 of unrestricted funds for their contributions to the field.

  • exploring histories of education advocacy before and after brown v board w/ my friend tomashi

  • Kibilio Community and Farms - Embodied Healing Fellowship

newsletters

  • Black Ecologie
    Black Ecologie Vol 6 | tales from an exotic land
    There is a particular kind of upper lip sweat I’ve only ever experienced in Florida. It’s the kind of nervous steam that appears when you drive by your fourth “Cheap Guns” billboard that day. For the first time in over a decade, I returned to Florida, the place I spent my early childhood. It’s a state of extremes: home to some of the most pristine natur…
    Read more
    a month ago · 2 likes · 1 comment · Paige Curtis
  • emet ezell: Memory, Magic, and Prophecy

  • building belonging: 2022 best-of: highlights of my learning journey

  • note: two newsletters i usually share here are on pause: astroradicals the mood and better humans daily. a couple others haven’t had anything new for a while. they’ll show up here when something new comes through but otherwise, i’m slimming this down a bit. :)

right now i’m learning…

how to have a grounded crush in my 30s. 😍

mood

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