Show and tell

I just launched a business!

I just launched a business! Now it’s time for show and tell. And I feel like a kid standing up in front of a classroom of his peers, excited and nervous.

I’ve been toying with the right analogy, actually. Do you launch a business? or build a business? or plant a business? or grow a business? or conjure up the audacity, against the odds, to become a business?

Whatever the analogy: I made a thing!

And it’s designed to be a living thing. Like every lasting creation, it’s meant to be something that is continually made. 

After all the work that I have put into building the foundation—after all the self-doubt and self-talk, all the coaching and feedback, all of the reflection and gathering and drafting and revising and framing—I am now occupying this precise moment where:

• I either stand back by myself and admire the thing in its static, unchanging form;

• or I risk sharing, and thereby changing, the thing.

Because the nature of the thing I made has to get shared to come alive.

It has to flow together with others—with folks like you—who are alive to the things that they want to make and birth and steward and champion in this world. 

It has to flow into the hearts and minds of people who are awake to themselves, and who are willing to entertain the possibility that—smack-dab in the midst of life—they can keep on becoming who they were born to be.

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Here’s the thing I made: Confluence Formation | Coaching & Spiritual Care.

And here’s how you can help it come alive:

1. Schedule some time to talk with me! I want to hear your feedback and curiosities, and any ideas or leads that you have about how to channel Confluence Formation into the lives of people it would help.

2. Share the coaching page specifically with people you know who might need help getting past obstacles that are blocking their creative flow.

3. Look at the spiritual care page and consider joining me for the 8-week Spiritual Formation in the Wild course that I will be teaching this Spring.

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I’m going to keep at it. Keep on making this thing. I’d love for you to join me along the way, in whatever ways you’re able and interested. 

Meanwhile, thank you for being part of this Substack community of practice. Your presence is an encouragement and inspiration to continue following Mary Oliver’s instructions for living a life: “Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

Right alongside of today’s creative practice: Make something. Get excited. Tell about it.

So, what about you? What’s wowing you of late? What have you been making recently? 

Tell us about it.