Who is Your Primary Employer?

Life chose two work stations for me. How about you? Who is your primary employer?

“...our well being is something that is achieved collectively by encouraging other people to do beautiful things.”   Marilyn Robinson

Life chose two work-stations for me. The first one I was assigned at birth. Born into the wreckage of war, I don’t remember a time when the question of “Why? was not pressing against some part of my consciousness.

Why? Why do we humans continue to commit acts of unfathomable cruelty? Why is the “us versus them” ethos so appealing to the injured, revenge-plotting part of us? How do we nurture the gestation of a human-type that wishes no harm?

The second workstation came much later, when I was denied something I wanted more than anything else. A baby.  Not long after the arrival of my “inconceivable daughter, the fertility/infertility world became my second work station.

For me, those two assignments are closely linked. How can I possibly continue to walk along people wishing to bring a child into our world, without encouraging an active engagement in making that world a whole lot more life-friendly for them and for all of creation?

 This new platform hopes to be one more way I’d love to pursue deeper truths in the context of those two questions: How do we nurture are fertility in the deepest sense of that word and how do we re-route the human impulse toward cruelty and channel it in life-affirming ways?

I intend to invite conversation through:

Live Zoom Birthing Circles using the ideas and tools of the Fertile Heart OVUM Practice to support the conception of projects that bridge our personal and collective healing.

And through conversations with teachers whose work encourages a more aware approach to being human.

The “OVUM Game” as I sometimes call the Fertile Heart OVUM Practice, is all about easing the ache of the human game.

Come, play with us!

Julia