NOTICINGS: Freedom Actions
Adjacent Sevens, Murmurating Democracy
Photo source: Sjo, www.sjo.nlNOTICINGS arises from living under civic fracture and climate disruption with care, dignity, and relationship.
Cup of Sugar is where that practice lives online when we’re not together in person.
You don’t need the right words to begin freedom actions.
You don’t need to agree.
You don’t need to be persuasive or correct.
You just need to stay human with one another.
A conversation can start with a question, a story, a worry, or a pause.
It can start badly and still be worth continuing.
Democracy isn’t only laws and institutions. It’s the daily practice of adjacency—showing up, staying in motion together, refusing to leave anyone isolated.
If you’re feeling unmoored, look again at the sky.
A cup of sugar, between neighbors, is not a metaphor for sweetness.
It’s a way of saying: we’re still here, we’re still talking—relationships making room for the impossible to become possible.