Month: January 2025

pop culture, resources, the society

Simplify BlueSky: Tips and Tricks for an Easy Migration

jennadewitt

Many of us represented here in the Invisible Cake Society—a feminist, queer/ally, often asexual/aromantic, progressive Christian, neurodivergence, mental illness, and disability site—have found ourselves curious about BlueSky. Whether you’re migrating from Twitter (“X”) or a Meta platform (FB, Insta, Threads), or simply want to see what the hype is about, this guide can walk you through the basics.

BlueSky’s culture, purpose, and design combine an older model of social media and the forefront of a new liberated era: It actually shows you what you signed up to see. Imagine that. Groundbreaking.No ads, no gaming the algorithm, no being spoon-fed whatever the app wants you to see while posts from friends are suppressed, and no disappointment when you see a post about an “upcoming” event show up on your feed for the first time, only to discover that the event happened several days ago. It’s real time here and you have much more control over seeing what you want to than on any other app. More on that later.

I’ve tried to make this as basic and easy as possible, but if you’re really just looking for the bare bones top 10 tips, go here: https://bsky.app/profile/joabaldwin.com/post/3lc4nlhpjds2y

BlueSky works on something called the fediverse. All you need to know right now about that is user handles are longer here and vary, but most end in .social. It’s like .com or .org, sort of. If you want to know more, there are plenty of good explainers out there, but you’re reading my simple start guide so you probably don’t need to care at the moment. Let’s go!

Before we begin, open the homepage, Bsky.app on a desktop browser. Most of this is easier on a desktop browser. A desktop browser is required for step 4’s browser extension. At this time, no app version or mobile browser version of this extension exists.

Also: If any of this changes or is wrong, please let me know and I will edit this guide!

Create an account and personalize your profile

  1. Pick a username (handle), upload a photo and banner, write a bio/description in the text box of how people might know you and what you post about, etc etc… you know the drill.
    1. I’d highly recommend, if you need to be recognizable, whether as an activist, leader, internet educator, a brand, or business (including writer or freelancer), go professional: real name or brand name, good portrait photo of your face or good-quality logo, website link, and a description that matches other social media and your website and clearly states what you do that might help people recognize you from elsewhere or find you for the first time and want to follow.

    1. If you have an established internet pen name and want to continue to post under that, use that as your username and try to keep your photo, banner, and/or description similar to the platforms you’ve been using already, at least at first.
    1. If you want to stay anonymous and create a new name/personal brand here, this is a great time to do it, but stay aware that everything on BlueSky (at least at this time) is public. There are no private accounts (yet?).
  2. Explore the settings for each part of the site.
    1. The gear button on the left sidebar on desktop only takes you to some of the settings (https://bsky.app/settings), but you can change your profile appearance, who can send you direct messages, how and which of your feeds (the tabs on the top of the home page) display, etc. by clicking each respective icons in that left side bar and then a button at the top right.

    1. Don’t get distracted by each empty section of the site so far or terms you don’t know yet. We’ll come back to this.

    1. First, take some time to open each section of the Settings and set the things you know you want/need, like privacy, nsfw settings, muted words, font size, default language, etc.
    1. You can also read the official BlueSky FAQs to get a quick overview of what terms mean, who can see what, and links to download the mobile app. Again, if you don’t know what something is yet, don’t worry about it. There’s a broad range of users on this app, from complete beginners to the expert internet-coding pioneers shaping the future, so treat it like a group exercise class and go at your own pace while letting the elite Pilates/yogi/Zumba athletes go at theirs.

Post and find posts

  1. Before you follow anyone, post something so people know it’s the real you. Link to your site, do an intro post with facts about you, copy and paste your most timeless and relevant post from elsewhere, or simply start posting you usual content here instead of/in addition to other social media apps. Post whatever first impression you want to give so people know immediately who you are and what vibe you’re going for here.
  2. Now, add some feeds (tabs on the top of the home screen) besides the default. Feeds are automated tools, not hand-curated lists (those are up next). They might be automatically customized for your account specifically or populate based on a hashtag, emoji, keyword, or other trigger. Some allow anyone to add a post by using the hashtag or emoji, while some require being added by the creator as a contributor. Look through the following linked post for any that appeal to you (the Mutuals one is my favorite—only posts from people I’m following who are also following me). Once you’re on the feed’s page, pin it to the Home page so you don’t have to save the URL somewhere. (Though you could! You do you.) https://bsky.app/profile/erinbiba.bsky.social/post/3lbxbqv65722h
    1. Find more! https://bsky.app/feeds, accessed by clicking the # button on the left side bar, not only allows you to view feeds (and lists saved as feeds) you have pinned but also search for more and see popular suggestions.
  3. Next, create some lists of accounts you will want to see.
    1. You can save these as if they are feeds (tabs on the top of the home screen). This allows you to organize accounts into topics or to keep your default feed to just the people you follow, who you really want to see first thing when you open the app. Using lists, you don’t have to follow accounts that you don’t want in your default feed but do still want to have readily accessible. This allows you intentional organization and sanity-preserving separation from, for example, news and politics. And vice versa, if you need a break, you can create a list of accounts that make you happy or calm and only scroll through that without having to see everything else. How to create a list:
      1. In the left sidebar, click the Lists button (looks like a bullet list). In the top right corner, click + New. Add a photo, name, and description so people know what it’s a list of. Reminder that almost everything on BlueSky is public, so anyone will be able to see this, not just you or people you add. Add members by searching. Pin to Home. Share by clicking the options (…)button.

    1. You can also pin other people’s lists. You’re welcome to pin any of mine to your home screen or pick and choose from them who you’d like on your own lists. Lists I’ve made: https://bsky.app/profile/jennadewitt.bsky.social/post/3lbvvcldrwc2o

    1. Here are lists and feeds that I did not make but that I enjoy having quick access to without these posts all being mixed in together: https://bsky.app/profile/jennadewitt.bsky.social/post/3lfxqlosaic2s

    1. The obvious advantage of using other people’s lists is that you do not have to do any work. The downside is you cannot edit them, no matter how much you want to add someone to or remove someone from showing up there. If you think you’ll want to add others not already on the list, or if someone on the list is going to make BlueSky a negative place for you, create your own list for that thing.
  4. Now, you need to follow some people for your home feed. You could search for them one by one, or click friends’ links as they post them on other sites, but the best way to get started is to run the Sky Follower Bridge extension: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l3nkrpivwuvwuqduk3illkvf .
    1. Make sure you are using the official one and do not get duped by a scam site. The real one is free. (Though thank-you donations to the one developer maintaining it in his free time are appreciated, it will not require anything like that to use it).

    1. I’ve had the best luck using the Chrome browser extension. Firefox (and my dozens of other extensions there) did not play well with it at the time. Your experience may vary, but I recommend Chrome first and then if that doesn’t work, try another browser you have the least number of other extensions installed on.

    1. Use it on Twitter, Threads, Instagram, and TikTok by opening your Following page on each. Do not run it on multiple sites at a time.

    1. Follow the instructions at the Sky Follower Bridge site: https://www.sky-follower-bridge.dev . Give it plenty of time to run. This part of the process is not quick but well worth it. You may also need to re-run it if it’s been stuck on the same number for a long while (in my experience, it tends to hit the other social media site’s rate limit as it gets into the 200s). Maybe walk away from the computer while it’s running so it can have the computer’s full attention for an hour or so. I follow several hundred people on most platforms, so yours may work the first time or you may not need to wait long at all. Some of us have been collecting social media users like Pokémon for nearly 20 years.

    1. Now that that’s done, click the button to review the results. Do not use the Follow All button. I’d recommend looking through them one by one to make sure the match is right. Not everyone has followed step 1’s substeps, so you may get false matches (especially for very common names. The JSmith123 on the BlueSky may not be same person as your friend who was JSmith123 on your previous social media app.) It also often matches a celebrity’s real account on Twitter/Instagram/Threads with a fan account on BlueSky because the fans are faster to adopt new platforms and claim their usernames than celebrities or brands are.  
      1. (On the other hand, there were some incorrect matches on mine, with just coincidentally the same name/handle as someone I followed elsewhere, who actually also sounded like very cool people so I ended up following them as well, despite knowing that they weren’t the person Sky Follower Bridge intended to match. 😊 )
    1. The next step is to either:
      1. Click the button in Sky Follower Bridge to follow them.
      1. Right-click and open the BlueSky profile in a new tab to check it out first or to add it to one of the lists you’ve created.
  5. Another way to mass follow a lot of people at once is to search for Starter Packs:
    1. These group people by what they have in common, like feeds and posts, but are just for following. For example, here are some starter packs for aromanticism and asexuality: https://bsky.app/profile/jennadewitt.bsky.social/post/3lbljbmsh3k2v
    1. You can also convert a Starter Pack to a list with this tool: https://nws-bot.us/bskyStarterPack.php
      1. For example, if you want a list of a bunch of news outlets and political opinions, but don’t want to get caught in the doomscrolling, you can use this starter pack and then make it a list with the tool above. https://bsky.app/starter-pack-short/U9juDW4
  6. You can then also use this tool to find people who are popular with the people you already follow: https://bsky-follow-finder.theo.io/

Get settled in at Home

  1. Now you can go back to the Home page and see what it looks like to open this app day to day.
  2. The default Following feed is reverse-chronological, meaning you see life as it happens, newest posts first.
  3. If you organized your lists too heavily and find yourself missing the randomness, you can set the Following feed to insert posts from your lists every so often: https://bsky.app/profile/pwnallthethings.bsky.social/post/3lbicklxsjs27
  4. A chronological default means posting is different here.
    1. Not only should you carefully decide who you’re following (aka spending your time with and setting the tone as soon as you open the app) but also keep this in mind about reposting your own content that you want people in various time zones and life schedules to see. Someone who only gets on during their morning commute may miss your posts in the evening if you’re not reposting it the next morning too.

    1. Don’t judge a lack of engagement here with failing the algorithm or disinterest. You just need to remember the old-school rules: shameless “self-promo” is necessary to hit that window when the majority of your mutuals (people who follow you and you follow them) are scrolling through the app. It’s not really “promo” to repost once or twice at different times; it’s just giving people what they followed you to see.

    1. You can automate this (and crosspost to multiple platforms while you’re at it) through tools like Buffer if this sounds like too much work.

    1. Or you can just post when you feel like it and your people who are meant to find you can find you, whether through other users sharing your posts or recommending you, from you following them, from a list you’re on, from hashtags or search terms you’ve used, or on their Discover tab. Yes, there IS an algorithm so you can still find new content and be discovered by others, but it’s an optional function, not the core of the app.

    1. Don’t be spammy: adding unrelated hashtags or @ mentioning people, only posting your own work and not interacting with others’, selling things, private (direct) messaging someone unsolicited without stating why you’re saying hello to them specifically, posting links with no other text or content, etc.  Again, it’s about who you know here, not gaming a computer algorithm. Be human, for humans.
    1. Use alt text for visual content: Accessibility, in particular alt text, is a big part of the culture here. Use this setting to make sure you are always posting alt text descriptions. Whether for vision-impaired users, when the internet is not loading images, or anything else, alt text is a good way to make sure everyone can understand the visual elements of your post, like photos, GIFs, and videos. https://bsky.app/settings/accessibility
      1. More on why: https://bsky.app/profile/dremenec.com/post/3l7m5k5yfbk2a

More things you can do here

  1. Direct message your friends (one by one for now, but group DMs are coming eventually): https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-22-2024-direct-messages
  2. Create a poll: https://poll.blue/post
  3. Search! The official guide to finding what you want to find: https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-31-2024-search
  4. Labels can help you find what you like more quickly or hide certain posts or accounts. Or just have fun! Try some here: https://www.bluesky-labelers.io/
  5. Blocking and blocklists:
    • Blocking is more meaningful here than elsewhere as far as interaction goes, and they won’t be able to see your posts while logged into that account, but remember there are no private accounts here. Blocked accounts cannot see your profile while in the app, reply in your threads, mention you, or otherwise interact with you. And vice versa.

    • It seems counterintuitive but one way to mass block a bunch of accounts is by “subscribing” to a list.
      • This is one example: https://bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s. The problem of course is false positives, which mean they may blocking anyone with the keywords in their username, description, and/or handle, so an account that is anti-Trump, for example, might be accidentally picked up by it if they are using the keywords like “Trump” in their main profile identity. Or an account that regularly critiques an organization might be accidentally added to a list of that organization’s fans. As an account yourself, this is why it’s smart not to define yourself by what you’re against, but also as a follower, this is why it’s smart to be picky about which blocklists you subscribe to (which will mass block everyone on them at once).  


  • Find out which lists you’re on: If you would like to find out which lists you’d been added to (for better or worse), type your handle into https://clearsky.app/.
    • Major caution here: On ClearSky, you can see not only who you’ve blocked but also who has blocked you, and sometimes the lists are not very nice (or accurate). No need to be offended at the results here, should you choose to view them. Just be amused and let people be wrong about you—or right about you and just not their cup of tea. You can’t please everyone. I’m grateful for those who have blocked me instead of trying to fight me on things that are often fundamental disagreements, simply who I am as person, or just a difference of opinion or preference. And someone’s choice to add you to a list might tell you something about them that leads you to block them first. Don’t use this knowledge to start drama, but besides that, it’s up to you if or how you handle this information.

    • On the plus side, once you get reconnect with all of your friends from everywhere else online, you’ll probably feel warm fuzzy feelings from being on their lists. ❤
    • ClearSky doesn’t ask for a password, so you can also see all of this information for other people too. Reminder that BlueSky is very public. The names of your lists, who is on them, who you’ve blocked, who has blocked you, your posts and replies activity history… everything is on display here for anyone who wants to see it.  
  • Moving forward, you can subscribe to either Listifications or Listifications Without Blocks to get a DM when someone adds you to a list, feed, or starter pack, and, optionally, when someone blocks you. For the reasons stated above, I’d recommend using self-awareness and discernment before using either of these, but especially the been-blocked-notifying one.
  • Bookmarking: This is odd, not gonna lie. Bookmarking isn’t a built-in feature, so users have created workarounds:
  • Copy a link to your profile: On your profile page, click the button that looks like an up arrow in a box. You can add yourself to one of your own lists or copy a link to your profile to share easily with others. Paste this link on your website or on other social media, wherever you have friends who want to find and follow your BlueSky account.  
  • Embed a post in your website: https://bsky.social/about/blog/post-embeds-guide
  • Turn the Twitter share button on other websites into a BlueSky button, functionally: https://share.notx.blue/
  • RSS, HTML, SMS, oh my! More tools featured on BlueSky’s official documentation page to help you, including tools to connect to GitHub, post via text message, crosspost to other apps, and import all your old tweets or Instagram posts: https://docs.bsky.app/showcase?tags=bridge

Long-term survival

  1. Do NOT feed the trolls. They might be bots anyway. https://bsky.app/profile/ketanjoshi.co/post/3lgbcabojgs2n
  2. How to stay informed about the news and stay sane: https://bsky.app/profile/jennadewitt.bsky.social/post/3lgc7gjsyvk2j
  3. Now that you’ve been here a little longer, you can always go back to your Settings page and add more muted words: https://bsky.app/profile/ianbetteridge.com/post/3lgabob5wdc2f

Now what

More tools and tricks

  1. Go further! Okay so you’re set up and now you are ready to really see what else you can do. Here are plentiful toy boxes on ways to have fun, customize your experience, track metrics, convert a starter pack to a list, find more people to follow, discover what’s trending, draft and schedule posts, use a different (third-party) interface if you’re not vibing with the built-in one, and much more:
    1. Awesome BlueSky: https://github.com/fishttp/awesome-bluesky

    1. Bsky Index: https://github.com/scrub-dev/bsky-index/

    1. Best BlueSky Apps: https://bestblueskyapps.com/

    1. BlueSky Stash: https://blueskystash.com

    1. Bsky Info: https://www.bskyinfo.com/tools/

2. Connect to the fediverse/Mastadon: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xbifsywyv5pka5jlknhv5yv3

Why am I not getting the interaction I am used to? You are likely to get more engagement if you:

  1. Had a following on Twitter (and your followers used Sky Follower Bridge to just port who they were following over automatically).
  2. Know people who are active here.
  3. Interact with other people’s posts regularly and consistently.
  4. Use hashtags and request to be on lists and starter packs in your area of expertise.
  5. Link to your profile here on other platforms.
  6. Post at various times.
  7. Be the change! Make lists, search for and post about research and resources that are helpful, learn the tips and tricks that other people need to know (whether about this app or anything in life).
  8. Similarly, you must share things you like in order for others to see them. “Liking” something doesn’t inject it into others’ Following feed the way it does on other platforms.

Things that we are hoping to see and BlueSky has confirmed they are working on: group DMs, post editing, more sign-in options, and limiting post audience.

Many thanks to Will Jennings for the basics that got me started on BlueSky and helped me learn a few of the things I shared above: https://bsky.app/profile/drjennings.bsky.social/post/3latpdkjnz22m

disability, essays, Mental health, neurodivergence

Contained

jennadewitt

Blooming between enoughness, too-muchness, limitations, and stewardship.

“Maybe our constraints are an altar.
Maybe our limits are sacred. Maybe we fulfill our purpose even if the container is smaller than you expected.”

Maybe we aren’t disqualified because we can’t do everything for everyone.
Maybe our capacity, however limited for a season, is an invitation.”

– Sarah Bessey, “In which I get honest about contentment, capacity, and a few other things”

a small potted plant sitting on top of a table
Photo by Amelia Cui on Unsplash

This Enneagram 3 has been wrestling with “But is it enough to the world? Should I be doing more? Am I doing enough?” for many years.

Sarah Bessey asked these questions in a Substack post last week, and I wrote much of the following as an essay-length comment in response. At her encouragement, I am not being self-deprecating about my hyperverbal tendencies and am instead turning it into an actual essay here. 😊

Enoughness and too-muchness haunt me as I bounce between ADHD and anxiety, between disabilities and giftedness, between work-for-your-worthiness hustle culture and the fine line of comfort that tips necessary recovery-mode rest into self-indulgence and privilege. Am I achieving enough to have earned my belonging, my right to be treated with respect, my credibility when I speak on my own story, my rest? And then there are the less me-focused questions: Am I doing enough to steward my gifts for the needs of the world? Am I loving my neighbor or just talking about it online? Am I missing opportunities when I could have made a difference but didn’t see the need right in front of me, which I am uniquely gifted and called to fill?

For one example, there is work to be done around building the field of asexual theology as a subset of queer theology, and I know I could and maybe even “should” do it, but here at this point in time, I spend so much time managing my disorders and disabilities and general adulting that even reading and remembering a book feels like a daunting task, much less trying to be one of few pioneers in a niche and controversial subgenre of a subgenre. Maybe that will change! My containers and limits today might only be for a season. I can’t know.

And still the ambition is there: Maybe I will feel like I am making a difference if I just wrote a book or got a significant speaking gig or finally went to seminary, just as the leaders and mentors in my life have suspected I someday will. The Enneagram 3 in me knows I could be Someone Special, if I just tried harder, had the right master’s degree from the right school, started a podcast, networked with all the right people, had an impressive title, never said “no” ever, flew to all the conferences and namedropped and threw my resume and story around like currency. If tried to be everything shiny and powerful and impressive to everyone all of the time, maybe enoughness would find me.

Alas for the darn bounds of time and space that I have to live linearly, constrained to physics, for lack of a TARDIS.

But being Someone Special is not a magic solution for the enoughness. This is part of my twice-exceptional ADHD, anxiety, perfectionist, compulsive overachiever recovery plan: to live contained to what I can do and not what I should do. I know it sounds simple, like the first-day-of-therapy kind of basic. But I realized in 2024 that I wasn’t getting to bed late because of Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, in which one stays up late to extend their fun free time. I simply had too many things on my plate for a normal human to get done in a day, and I am not a “normal” human. I am an invisibly disabled one, just in small ways that add up, and not always obviously, even to myself. My brain and body are different than other people’s, in need of different and sometimes more time-consuming care or problem-solving. (In 2023, my Word of the Year was “Complicated, as in letting myself be.” And that was a huge theme. Very accurate for that year. Goodness.)

I know all the hustle culture currency, which we have been taught will buy love or respect, is just another lie of capitalism. So, as Kendra Adachi says, naming what matters to ME (and not to everyone’s expectations to live up to) is vital for survival.

Back to the good I could do in the world, which genuinely does need what I am uniquely gifted to share: My skills as an editor and former journalist can teach my friends and followers media literacy; my specific theology and knowledge as a queer asexual Methodist provides a rare perspective on de/reconstruction and advocacy training; my White middle-class privilege to boost a cause or raise awareness or speak until my voice is hoarse allows others to get what they need. But at what point do my gifts/abilities/skills and the world’s needs surpass my capacity, regardless of my fit-ness for the task and call to stewardship of all I’ve been given?

My local leaders of United Women in Faith, the UMC women’s organization, said their theme this year, is “No one can do everything, but we can all do something. Let’s see what we can do together.” It is essentially the same “my drop in the bucket” concept I’ve held like a lifeline: I can’t fill the whole bucket of the solution, but I can be one droplet that makes the bucket overflow with compassion and care for all.

So I know I can’t do everything, but am I doing enough, what’s expected of me, what I should be doing, what the world needs from me, what is my duty and responsibility to step up and do? One body, many parts, means I can’t be the whole body by myself, but as a body part, am I contributing my function to justify the gifts I’ve been given and meet the needs of those who need me to give them?

I tried so hard in 2024. I did what I could. And in some ways, it was never going to be enough, and learning that the hard way allowed me to discern “the difference” of the infamous prayer, between what is mine to change and what is mine to accept I cannot change. People like to edit this to “no longer accepting what I cannot change, but changing what I cannot accept” as if it makes any sense. With apologies to Angela Davis, often cited as the source of this quote, it doesn’t add up. The lesson of the container is learned in cracking it to pieces and the necessary repair work that follows. I cannot save the whole world and convert them to be Justice Warriors with my leftover Evangelical Hero Complex (vintage Sarah Bessey blog post throwback!). I can’t change the election outcome or my body’s neediness or hateful people who don’t want to do better and refuse to learn anything. But I can accept what is out of my control and still commit to live my values regardless of the circumstances. For another metaphor, if a brick wall is blocking my path, the only way forward is to start by accepting that the wall is immovable, but I am not. I can’t change the wall, but I can change direction in response to it. This is “the wisdom to know the difference.”

As Sarah wrote about, we must make peace with being contained, constrained, being CONtent/conTENT of a boundaried physics-abiding linear timestream with over a third of my 24 hours a day being paid work and another third being necessary sleep. We must trust it’s enough, we’re doing enough, we’re enough, or that we’ve equipped others enough that they can pick up the baton and start running for themselves. And maybe we build that community we want, not through earning admirers from hustling, impressing, or fulfilling obligations and duties with our own skills, but in encouraging, equipping, opening doors, and giving away our seat at the table to those who need to be heard and seen. And then, when we are refreshed and discerning wisely, we can jump back in with what IS ours to do.

Sarah also wrote of others demanding moremoremore, which can turn from an honor into a storm of expectations and duty and stewardship and performance and responsibility so fast. As Taylor Swift sings, “the crowd was chanting MORE” as she was falling apart and pretending to be on top of the world (“I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”). It is often a mistimed, misplaced, or misworded expression of gratitude.

I say this to all of you from hard-won experience: you are already enough. And you have the wisdom to determine your own course of action and capacity to give. Comparison and competition will not measure accurately, ever. Your worthiness and enoughness lie unshaken within you by any outside force or others’ assessment. You’re wanted and not forgotten, you’re important and belong, you’re respected and trusted, you’re so very deeply loved and appreciated, you’re effective and outstanding in your work. And often that work does hit exactly where your neighbors and loved ones have their own needs. And I sit with you all in that grief of discernment, priorities and values alignments, and adding and subtracting to your schedule, knowing that some of the “moremoremore!” cheeping baby birds will have to learn to fly and seek their need-meeting elsewhere because you cannot be everything to everyone all of the time, even if you’d be better at it than others or have been given unique gifts to do it. Sometimes that opens the door for someone else to be the one who steps up to help, and sometimes that learn-to-fly moment will be the realization the baby birds need to lead themselves. The “moremoremore” might be a chance for the crowd to grow into “I can too” and blossom into a community of support so you aren’t the lone pioneer in your area of expertise and giftings, just one necessary and interdependent part of a larger body.

Being involuntarily boundaried by our limitations is a grief. Don’t skip over that part. We must learn to lament.

And also. Healthy containers and constraints can lead to more diverse ecosystems and stronger, lasting growth. They will also help us get quiet and still enough to hear the whisper of the Spirit or nudge in a direction to go and love in ways we are uniquely called to, equipped for, gifted in, and given to delight in.

If I must live bounded in a container of energy, time, space, and ability, then let me be a garden, flourishing and resting and bearing fruit and contributing to the growth of others, each in its season.

girl sitting using smartphone
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash