Flowers are fragile and living beauty.
Crystals are fragile and precious.
Childhood is fragile and infinitely creative.
Things bruise, tear, erode, break… they’re fragile. But, things are also resilient and enduring.
Our conditions, our lives are more like a plant than like a jewel. Fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from its fragility. - Martha Nussbaum
Sometimes we overestimate the fragility of things or deny or downplay the true extent of fragility. It’s scary to admit the vulnerability of our own bodies or the delicate ecology of the planet. It’s scary and humbling. But, if we don’t recognise fragility, or the only way we choose to see it is to "box it" into a robust case stamped with FRAGILE we lose agility.
I know, this is counter-intuitive and, many would even argue that things that are not agile are fragile. I do not believe so. I think we need to embrace fragility to have a sort of agility. We need to see it clearly and take it into our arms with love and respect. There is, in fragility grounded truth, peace amidst life’s changes and endings, resourcefulness in the stewardship of the things we care about. It is by embracing fragility we become agile.
Notice your fragility and become aware of your capacity to repair, your resilience, your precious gifts. To be fr-Agile we need to work with all shades of existence, including, the realms of mystery and shadow. The denial of fragility (vulnerability, shadow, softness...) brings forward destructive and oppressive powers.
What is fragility to you? Instead of controlling or hiding it can you express it? Can fragility be the doorway to mastery?
Take some time to journal about it. Ask your team to do the same. Experience your fragility(ies) and let it guide you towards the agility needed to navigate the paradoxes of being life.
Perhaps, to be fr-agile is to know our place in the world, to understand our gifts as well as our limitations. The relationships we have with self, others, the planet… are imbued with trust, they are uncertain and call for the willingness to be exposed. They are fragile. We are fragile. The intrinsic fragility of Being… Living.
The fr-agility to express our rage at the status of things, the fr-agility of the direct consequences of ignoring what is fragile and stepping fully into our own fragile power as a species. To become fr-agile is to have the courage to reclaim the whole which otherwise will be lost, is to have the courage of not being afraid to break.
It isn’t always our impotence which makes us most fragile. Sometimes it’s our power. We’re not accustomed to it and so we fear its consequences. - Sharon Blackie
To step into the power of fr-agility means to trust ourselves, our instincts, our intuition, our knowledge, and their complete opposites… Perhaps is in that fr-agile space we become agile masters. To let the fear go and the shame and tell the stories which need to be told.
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