Beauty Boone
Harmony of Purpose & Form
Everything we studied across thirty days. The books, the organizations, the reporting, and the practices that went with them.
These thirty days were about starting something you could keep.
This page holds every source shared during the Journey, organized the way the weeks were organized. Work through it in order or open the week you need. The actions from each email are here too, so you can pick up wherever you left off.
Kujichagulia asks us to define, name, create, and speak for ourselves. Madhubuti puts consciousness first, before commitment and before action. Black August opens with the fast, which is the practice of choosing what we take in and what we set down. The Personal track asks us to tend to ourselves first.
Every one of those is the same instruction arriving from a different direction. That is where our agency lives, and it is how we become people who can build community independently.
We started with you. What Black August is and where it came from. What is taking from you and returning nothing. How to move in a way that belongs to you.
No right answers. Write them down somewhere you will find them again.
Whether your work is sustaining your life or consuming it. Where your money goes and why it leaves. And grace, which turned out to be the thread running through everything after it.
No right answers. Write them down somewhere you will find them again.
Whose land you are standing on. The meeting that is actually about your water and your block. And the village, and what is being done to our children inside it.
No right answers. Write them down somewhere you will find them again.
Rest first. Then what people build anyway, under conditions worse than ours. Then how to keep a record while the record is being taken apart.
No right answers. Write them down somewhere you will find them again.
Policy gets reported in fragments, and the fragments are easy to argue with. The documents are public. Read the language, note what it actually proposes, and decide for yourself what is being built.
Pick one document. Read twenty pages, not a summary of them. Ask who is named, what is proposed to happen to them, who is expected to carry it out, and who benefits if it works.
Then ask the harder one. When the last manual like this was implemented, who absorbed the cost, and are those same people being asked to absorb it again?
Most people drop most of this in September. Not because they did not mean it. Life resumes, and a practice with no structure under it dissolves quietly.
So do not try to keep all of it. Pick one practice, one habit, one thing from these thirty days you want to still be doing at Thanksgiving. Write it down and put it where you will see it.
The next 30 Day Journey is coming. Watch this page.