Gratitude resets our perspective
E168: Rest & Recap 24 - Thanksgiving Edition 🦃
First, a very warm welcome to the 58 new subscribers who have joined us in Tribe Tilt since our previous “REST” edition in early October. Thank you for honouring us with your company.
“What is this Rest tradition?” you may be wondering. Let me explain:
Every seventh edition we hit “pause”. In lieu of an essay, I shine the spotlight on a different aspect or practice of rest.
Rest and active recovery are essential skills in the new Future of Work — as important as digital literacy.
A core mission of this newsletter is to raise “Future-Ready Leaders”. This may be the 3-year-old child at your breakfast table this morning. Or you. To avoid the time lost to burnout, our future-ready leaders need to understand and develop a capacity for active recovery and pacing so that they can not only survive but thrive in a world that is ON 24/7.
Rest element 24: What does Gratitude have to do with Rest?
Burnout goes beyond stress and overwhelm. It usually accompanies a level of exhaustion that is debilitating
I think gratitude forces us to pause long enough to raise our head and “notice”. We look for the good around us. This simple act functions to arrest our downward introspective spiral. This act of mindfulness works as effectively as slowing down to take that deep breath in box breathing.
When I give thanks I also allow someone else, or nature, into my personal space. I acknowledge, however briefly, that I am part of something bigger. It helps settle my overwhelm. And that offers me great comfort and peace. And rest.
It resets my perspective.
Gratitude is tightly woven into many recovery and religious practices. Consider it an ancient wisdom, an heirloom skill.
By shining a light on our individual focus on active recovery, if this newsletter can help one person preempt that sense of overwhelm and burnout then it has done its good deed for the day.
Thanksgiving Gratitude 🦃
"…it is not important what we eat, but that we stay connected. And that we continue to remember those we love, who love us back.”
E115: Our Tradition is in the Thanks, Not the Turkey
Wishing you the joy of being with those you cherish at this time of Thanksgiving.
I am immensely grateful for my family and the circle of friends who have helped me this year.
My mother’s passing earlier in the year reminded me that at the end of our lives we are surrounded by our family and friends. Investing in these life-long relationships should be on constant simmer.
Community is the glue holding humanity together. Thank you, Tribe Tilt. Thank you to the subscribers friends who have been here from the start, and the many new ones. Your curiosity, engagement, comments restore my faith in humanity.
Now you may be reading this saying “… surely she doesn’t mean me, because I have only known her a short while”. Well—you would be surprised! I have received crazy impactful support from some of my newest relationships. It was offered with love and honest caring. And that made all the difference. So thank you for gluing me back together when I needed it.
Some past Thanksgiving issues: including Mrs Keisman’s Vermouth Turkey, and Slowing to the Speed of Spawning Salmon.
Recap: Digest of issues 162 - 167
My takeaways from this 24th cycle of seven1:
Write of Passage dominated this cycle. I had the honour of being an Editor in this final cohort (the class that launched this newsletter 167 editions ago). Nostalgia. Publishing wisdom. Sharing the work of other wonderful authors. Gratitude.
My interest in climate and curiosity about the opportunity to invest in it are rooted in my back story.
What themes did you notice over the past two months?
As I craft each cycle of seven I get to re-read the conversations that were inspired by the posts. It is interesting to see how each reader interacts with my words, re-interpreting them according to their own life journey - the same way a piano virtuoso interprets a Chopin score.
Six editions seen through the eyes of my readers:
The Dow and I have a rather personal relationship. Read to discover more!
Imagine … if we have all this wealth in the system can we coalesce and solve some of the big problems (like Climate) out there? After all, in 1969 we sent man to the moon … and brought him back. There were less than 4 billion brains on Earth, less than 10% of high-school grads went onto post-secondary education in the USA, and the DJIA was valued at 875.
What can we possibly do today, with the abundance of global brain, brawn and wealth we have access to? Let’s imagine …
My second-favorite is Rihanna and Jay-Z's Umbrella: Let it rain, I hydroplane in the bank / Comin' down like Dow Jones. [Wow! To be linked to Rihanna and Jay-Z!!]
Ilona: Would love to know why the DOW is generally considered a bell-weather for success - especially as its increases seem to be correlated with environmental damage.
Themes: Climate, Future of Work, Adulting in Manhattan
I was lucky to be old enough to remember my great-grandmother plying me with warm bowls of soup. This link to my past is one of the reasons I am so focused on Climate.
It is what connects my past to my present, and my present to my future. It infuses everything I write and my hopes for the future.
I am the span of seven generations.
Dana: Thank you Karina for reminding me of the enormous value of generational relationships. My parents are here visiting from the US and they are able to see their grandchildren and their great grandchildren! It is a thing of beauty and reinforces the truth of the connectedness of us all.
Themes: climate, Family & Community, Resilience, Heirloom skills, 21st-century skills, Raising Future-Ready Leaders
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You can get into your own head a lot when you first attempt to publish in public. This essay was a plea to emerging writers to discover why they feel compelled to take this risk.
… in a world of 8 billion people, someone, somewhere needs to hear what that creator has to say in the way only they can say it, to cut through the noise and connect through the isolation of the internet.
Themes: story-weaving, AI
“Write the essay you need to read”. This was one based on District Energy, one of those climate opportunities. Stories of climate progress and energy dollars that needed to be shared more widely.
While we each agree change has not happened fast enough, I am lifted by the expanding sense of awareness, urgency and opportunity. We are gaining momentum. And we cannot underestimate the value and vector of that gathering force.
Themes: climate, story-weaving
Write of Passage restored my faith in humanity. I found a renaissance of ideas in this ingenious, international, inter-generational tapestry of bold, critical thinkers.
As I bid goodbye to WoP, I also realized that this writing journey has layered on top of a substantial life transition for me - from active-parenting to parent-on-the-sidelines, and from daughter to orphan. Writing (with the help of a great writing community) helped me accept these changes and is preparing me for the next stage in my life.
Talk about going from the squeeze of Sandwich Generation to being a solitary slice of pickle.
: Beautiful and insightful. Thanks for sharing this. I too have made a meal of deconstructing and reconstructing my identity. I believe being conscious in this process is one of our most powerful human experiences. ☺️ [Jax also writes on the Future & Family in ]
Themes: 21st-century skills, transitions, gratitude, community, story-weaving
This is part of a new category in our newsletter - where I share the work of some emerging or established authors whose essays have a wonderful hum and impact.
Thank you to
for being the first and allowing me to showcase your essay "From Couch to Dawn - Sweat, Strides and Stories". Your writing “moved me” literally.In an age of endless optimization and artificial intelligence, perhaps the most revolutionary act is returning to our most basic human capability: sustained movement through space.
Themes: 21st-century skills, heirloom skills, transitions & transformation, mindset, movement, technology
Request to Tribe Tilt: I’m experimenting with a different way of presenting the essays within this cycle of seven. Just words and quotes, separated by Janis Ozolins2 visual. Do you prefer it? I’d like to know.
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Karena
I write in cycles of seven and explore new ideas and synergies over the past six weeks of essays. This comes from the "Colosseum of Ideas" concept in Write of Passage. My major themes:
Raising Future-Ready Leaders, including necessary 21st-century skills
Impact of the Future of Work over the next decade
Exploring empowering conversations on Climate
I am very lucky.
gifted me this version of my logo. I like the sense of momentum that is in sync with the concept of “Tilt” the Future. It is appropriate that each week’s edition helps build a bigger body of work. Janis has illustrated a number of famous posts and books, most recently Ana Fabrega’s The Learning Game. Janis runs a course on designing course titled “Explain Ideas Visually” which I would recommend. Thank you for the separator design suggestion
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Nice one. Keep up the good work. Trust everyone had a great Thanksgiving there... Much love from Goa....