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| ISSUE NO. 664 |
| WITH A LITTLE HELP . . . from our newsletter readers (that's you!) we've found our way through another week of questioning, wondering, and sometimes despairing. It's no secret that we answer all of our emails (with the help of our other behind-the-scenes friend, Sam), and most of the time that means we hear from engaged and connected folks who have challenging questions to share, or inspiring anecdotes about their experience using GFJ, or something unpredictably joyful or intriguing to share in response to a newsletter or a job posting. Everyone once in a while, it also means we are stung by someone's anger or frustration. In the last few weeks, both have been true, and as we've processed the duality of those responses, it's helped us to reconnect to the duality of life - the holding of 'two truths', if you will, or 'inhabiting the bothness', as we once wrote about. Part of the reason this is such a helpful idea to return to is that we are about to join - through this newsletter - a conversation on how to make the job application process more equitable. Yes, we know that job applications begin with job postings, and that's why we share this totally free and beautiful and (we hope) inspiring resource with you...but it's been some time since we revisited that, and another newsletter reader brought our attention to how ripe it is for delving into, as well as how necessary it is to address it. Often a well-timed piece of criticism can derail us completely. Or we can feel so defensive that we want to throw it out entirely. But if it's possible to sit with the discomfort long enough to hold two truths...then we see that the challenge or frustration of one person is something we might all share. When it comes to fighting for a more equitable world, there often seem like more opportunities to be performative or even intentionally manipulative or exploitative, than to be honest and reflective. What is the ultimate goal - to be right all the time? To have people like you? Those are easy traps to fall into, but the words of another reader reminded us this week of our true north: to continually strip away 'what you think people want to hear' and to 'say what you actually mean'. What we mean is: this is hard. It hurts sometimes. And there is also a lot of joy. We are grateful. And we'll keep going. If it feels like we're talking to ourselves here, that's because we, too, are business owners always learning and looking for ways to better serve. We're in this together. In community, Tay + Dor
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tidbits...resources on anti-racism, environmentalism and food culture AKA stuff we're reading / listening to / watching / noticing / thinking about / captivated by this Tuesday . . . |
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