Welcome
Introducing Clues and Questions
Hello, and thanks for popping by!
This is Clues and Questions, a letter from me, Wendy Ball. It’s an experiment, offered freely to the curious or intrigued.
My hope is that it will be a gift to kinfolk who are also on the hunt for life-giving stuff – patterns of life and ways of organising that enable more wellbeing for us all.
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The content will be eclectic drawing on a wide range of experiences and influences – including from my work.
My work is my labour in the world. I dislike the phrase ‘work-life balance’ which places work as somehow ‘outside’ life. For me, work is a core strand within life, and refers to far more than simply what I might get paid to do. (Surely ‘work-rest’ balance makes more sense?).
Similarly, I’m always hesitant to categorise my activities as either ‘professional’ or ‘personal’. These contributions are all rather personal and important to me. What I do alongside clients (my ‘paid work’) and those I support is mutually nurtured and enabled by how I invest in learning and creative expression in other spaces too.
So this letter is not going to try to occupy a singular ‘domain of interest’.
Rather each edition will be shaped by a short sharing of something that feels resonant and important – a ‘good clue’.
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I will close each letter with two questions – things I’m musing on that you, as a reader, might also appreciate pondering. One question will be focused on the personal, the other will be designed to bring a lens to our collective practices and the ways we are showing up in groups.
The principle of ‘Ubuntu’ is at the heart of this work and this letter: I am because we are. The essence of being human is our entanglement – with each other and with everything that is.
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The rhythm may be monthly, or perhaps something more adhoc. I’ll be finding my way.
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Finally, let me close this welcome with a little something that emerged in my sketchbook:
Warmly,
Wendy