Today's word for writing is "pleasure." On pathways to collective flourishing, what makes pleasure a necessity? What is your relationship to pleasure? How is pleasure - in its many forms - like bread for the journey? What systems and norms have demonized pleasure and for what reasons? What is one pleasure you have savored through the difficulty of the pandemic? Reflect. Meditate. Pay attention. Feel. Then, write three lines of poetry. May it be a prayer, a confession, an observation, a longing, a release, or a sensation - whatever is needing your tending today. Collective contributions will...

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