Truth & Beauty #3: Working with Yourself & Less is More

Plus, music for the soul, cleansing cries & the beauty of fragility

Truth: I have an entire iNote full of things I want to share in this edition of Truth & Beauty… maybe I’ll get to them next week?

Truth: I am in no way motivated to extrapolate on these notes in a way I feel will do them justice (I’ve been trying to muster up the motivation for a couple of days now)

Truth: I may have over-estimated the sheer amount of work it takes to create a weekly newsletter that is as comprehensive as I desire for it to be.

Truth: I thought about reducing the Truth & Beauty publication to every other week, instead of weekly (and I might still decide that) but for now I’m just going to embrace the fact that some weeks I might just have to embrace a less is more approach, and that’s okay

Truth: I worked against myself, my proclivities, my eccentricities, and my neurosis for years, and I just flat out refuse to do that to myself anymore. I desire to work with myself, not against myself.

So for this week, I will leave you with these simple, and present moment truths of mine, a truth-telling music-for-the-soul song by Jon Batiste, and a very beautiful TedTalk I just watched while “procrastinating” writing this newsletter.

I would recommend not watching this TedTalk until you’re ready for a good, cleansing cry. It’s about what is left when you can no longer justify clinging to your beliefs.

Kate Bowler also has a book called ‘No Cure for Being Human’ which I haven’t started yet, but most definitely plan to read because it’s on theme with something I’ve been thinking about A LOT lately, which is this:

What if, instead of trying to heal our ‘brokenness’, we could instead foster a healthier relationship with it?

Perhaps we will never ‘be healed’ because the human condition of being ‘severed’ until the day we die is unavoidable, inescapable, and intrinsic to the human experience.

…and, what if that’s what makes living so fucking beautiful?

After decades of gilding the lily via personal development, I’m beginning to think that maybe our time and energy would be better off spent fostering a healthy relationship with our ‘brokenness’, than in the lost cause of trying to rid ourselves of fragility

What do you think?

I’d love to hear any thoughts you have regarding this week’s edition of Truth & Beauty, as well as your own current truths and beauties.

Xo Chandra Nicole