When you look at a group and you don’t see anyone like you, it can be tempting to think that it means there’s no place for you.
In a community, in a market, in an industry.
But it might mean the opposite: that there is space for you, that what’s missing is you and what you offer.
For the longest time, I thought that to find “my people” meant looking for a group who “thought like me.” I believed that was what “like-minded people” meant.
And I’m realizing that’s only half true.
I had a chance last week to spend four nights with the family up in the hills of Knowlesville, NB. Hanging with the community and school Kayte and the kids go to once a week.
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There was a school trip to an organic apple orchard on Thursday and the annual Country Fair on Saturday. So we decided to make a thing of it.
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Where we stayed was off-grid and largely without even cell reception.
(More so than I thought, causing me to unexpectedly abandon my daily emailing last week!)
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On the third day, I realized it’s not about finding a group of people who think like you do. It’s about finding a group of people who let you think like you do.
This is true community, and I’m coming to see that it is everything.
By the end of the fair, I was playing guitar in the band while people swung their partners at the country dance.
Do-si-do,
James
P.S. Here are some pictures of the Fall colours to make you swoon.
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