🌱 Friday Care Package Week 20 of 52 —Arrival
A Care Practice for Living Into Possibility
🌱 Friday Care Package
Week 20 of 52 —
Arrival
A Care Practice for Living Into Possibility
✨ The Word We Are Tending
Arrival
Dear Becoming Ones—
Today, I have arrived in London.
Not as completion.
Not as conclusion.
Not as someone who has figured things out.
Simply as someone who has arrived at a point in time.
Over these past several weeks, I have been carried by the generosity of others. I arrive by train or plane and find myself hosted by people who continue to model another way of being human together.
Arrival, I am learning, is relational.
It is not an individual achievement.
It is the experience of being received.
🚂 Arrival as Movement
When I first set out to travel by train across the United States for this research project, I did not imagine it would carry me across the globe.
And yet—here I am.
Writing from London.
Being hosted by Black Pentecostals.
Listening carefully for how we might turn toward one another.
Arrival does not end the journey.
Arrival is part of the process of becoming.
To arrive is to remain in motion—
negotiating the in-between of all things:
between stranger and friend
between exile and belonging
between grief and hope
between the world we inherited and the world trying to emerge
🌍 Being Received
There is something deeply healing about being welcomed.
About someone making room for your body, your story, your presence.
Hospitality reminds us that another world is still possible.
Not because the world has suddenly become safe or just—but because people continue to choose generosity in the midst of domination.
I think this is what arrival is teaching me:
We do not arrive alone.
We arrive through community.
🌿 Turning Toward
How might arrival become a practice of connection?
How might we learn to turn toward one another—not through performance, but through attention?
What if arrival is less about reaching a destination and more about becoming available to relation?
These are the questions guiding me right now.
As I sit with communities, eat with strangers, and listen to stories unfold across tables and train cars, I am becoming more convinced that possibility is not abstract.
It is made material in ordinary acts of welcome.
🔥 Resistance Through Relation
In a world shaped by supremacy, domination, and extraction, arrival can become its own form of resistance.
To arrive softly.
To receive and be received.
To remain open to encounter.
This, too, undermines empire.
Because empire depends upon isolation.
But arrival asks us to practice belonging.
🔁 The Refrain
Another world is not demanded of us— it is invited through attention, care, and courage.
🌿 Fugitive Somatic Practice
Arriving in the Body
3–5 minutes
Pause wherever you are.
Feel your feet touching the ground.
Notice one part of your body that feels present right now.
Ask quietly:
“What would it mean to fully arrive here?”
Take three slow breaths.
Not to finish the journey—
but to inhabit this moment more fully.
🕯 Closing
May you be welcomed.
May you practice receiving others gently.
May your arrivals remind you that movement is not failure.
And may community continue to orient us
toward another possible world.
Paz,
—RCE+