I’ve been working on a list of skills, mine and Ming’s. And the traits we share to make positive change. What do you think?
Ming’s skills
- permaculture design
- garden / plant care, composting, sheet mulch
- animal care: chickens, goats, bees
- selling at Farmers Markets and craft fairs
- tracking and data entry
- Registered Nursing: hospital, hospice, personal care, workplace, street medicine
- visioning and office work for a nonprofit
- putting on events
- childcare
- facilitating meetings and workshops
- systems analysis
- problem solving
- supporting others’ projects
- talking with anyone and connecting people
- Non-Violent Communication
Laura-Marie’s skills
- writing, art, singing
- making zines
- cooking veg food for family, community, events, Food Not Bombs
- social media: instagram, facebook, youtube, soundcloud, forums
- web design
- garden / plant care
- organizing
- tracking data
- facilitating meetings and workshops
- teaching
- radical mental health
- putting on events
- visioning and office work for a nonprofit
- ritual and altar design
- listening and remembering
- emotional labor, being with
- perceiving and speaking truth
shared traits
- responsibility
- communication
- respectfulness
- follow through
- persistence
- care
- curiosity
weird things
“Do you have any weird things you’re good at?” I asked Ming.
“I can peel a sticker off almost anything,” he said.
“That is too true,” I said, laughing.
“I can have great conversations with bunnies who don’t talk back,” he said.
Then I hugged him. “Yeah,” I said.
“I can keep great notes about what happens in my head,” he said.
“Yeah, what a skill!” I said, holding him for a long time. “Hugging. You’re good at hugging.”
As for me…
weird things I’m good at
- finding more strawberries where someone already picked the strawberries
- freehand art embroidery
- ecstatic states
- studying train graffiti or any graffiti
- thinking of things I would like a Master’s degree in
- writing spoof artist’s statements
- sprouting lentils, beans, seeds on the counter for salads
- understanding things others don’t understand
- not understanding things everyone else understands
- overdoing it, homes
