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Care Package Archive

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Care Packages🤲🏽

You know when someone who loves you sends you a parcel with a bunch of goodies in it? I’m endeared to the care package (in whatever form it comes) as a way of making, way of caring, way of sharing. There’s no shortage of possibility as to how a care package presents, what it contains, what assortments are collected, how it’s delivered, how it’s received, and what it might mean to it’s recipients.

I value that this orientation toward making and giving can bring together items that you don’t always see together. You’re simply giving what’s needed and what might land as care. I like when a care package is a sweet collection of some practical stuffs and also things for pure enjoyment (maybe highlighting the functionality of joy and pleasure to our survival); a mix of things you can use in the long run plus some things to use right now. A box containing socks, a nice notebook, some chocolate, a bag of rice.

I like both mail and creating with the intention to give, so the Care Package holds a place in my heart. I send the people on my list a weekly (email) Care Package 🤲🏽. I write them with the intention of both holding space for all the positive possibility that you radiate, and to be of real tangible use. Ideas that you can grab onto, that make a difference in your life.

I created the Care Package Archive to collect these packages all in one place. Sign up if ya wanna receive em straight to your inbox.

For Mr.Mandela

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As an organizer I’ve never been interested in imposing ideas (ie: plastic containers) onto someone’s lifestyle… ideas and material that they don’t need or want or, more importantly, will continue not knowing how to interact with.

 

As a mentor and coach I have had and always will have an individualized approach rooted in building a relationship of trust, communication, and accountability. Pivotal to this posture is believing that I have SO MUCH to learn from everyone around me, including those I’m setting out to help.

 

People live differently, period. I don’t believe in assuming people are disorganized. In fact I don’t believe in making any assumptions about people and that’s generally a good rule of thumb and exactly what this piece of writing is about.

 

It is important to recognize that we sort constantly. We make and subscribe to categories whether we’re mindful of it or not. It’s good to pay attention to the organization that we make or accept. Sorting is a very powerful, potentially social and relational and, at the same time, highly personal act. Sorting has various depths and considerations. It’s crucial we recognize and be sensitive to this fact.

 

To be blunt and obvi and oversimplified, making assumptions about others based on the color of their skin, where they come from, their language, their lifestyle, the way they live… is as arbitrary and stupid as sorting all of your kitchen appliances by shade and color. Nonsense. 

 

Our autonomy to sort, reorganize, and rethink is hopeful. I sincerely trust that we will make humane choices.

Loretta Barrera