🌱 Friday Care Package Week 9 of 52 --Feasibility
A Care Practice for Living Into Possibility
🌱 Friday Care Package
Week 9 of 52 —
Feasibility
A Care Practice for Living Into Possibility
✨ The Word We Are Tending
Feasibility
Dear Becoming Ones—
Each Friday this year, I am tending the word possibility by tracing one of its synonyms — listening for the history inside the English language and the worlds those words make possible.
Today’s word is Feasibility.
Not bureaucratic approval.
Not institutional permission.
Not the cold calculus of viability under capitalism.
But the quiet discernment of what can actually take root
given the conditions we are living inside.
We tend feasibility not as limitation —
but as wise attention to soil, season, and strength.
Feasibility is rhythmic.
It listens before it moves.
It does not foreclose.
🌾 Soil, Season, Strength
The wisdom economy has always required imagination. And when we think about feasibility through seasonal turning, we begin to understand it as an orientation — a way of being present to what is possible now, without demanding what is not yet ready.
Feasibility asks:
What can grow here?
What cannot?
What must rest?
This week, I write from deep grief.
I am on an extended research trip, traveling by train to eat with strangers, listening for story, and my first cat, Frida, has passed.
What is the feasibility of grief in a season of catastrophic collapse?
Can we metabolize loss when the world itself feels like it is unraveling?
Grief does not wait for ideal conditions.
It arrives anyway.
And perhaps feasibility is not about escaping grief —
but about asking how much grief the body can hold at once.
🚂 Story as Condition
As I travel, I am reminded that the conditions for possibility are found in the quality of connection.
My guide in Experiential Narrative Practice, Michael McRay, reminds me that story is the currency of human connection. We are storytelling creatures. Meaning happens at the intersection of lived experience and narrative.
This is why I return again and again to Gloria Anzaldúa, who combed through her own life as theory. Her autohistoriataught me that lived experience is not anecdotal — it is epistemological. My teacher, Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, once placed Borderlands/La Frontera in my hands and said: “Know your story.”
That was a turning.
A metanoia.
Feasibility is born there — in knowing one’s story and guarding it carefully.
The etymological root of toward means “to guard” or “to watch.”
We need an orientation toward one another that guards life.
Community vigilance is not paranoia.
It is care in action.
🔥 Fugitive Feasibility
Feasibility is not compliance with the present order.
When Paul writes in Corinthians, “Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial,” he is naming discernment. Just because something can be done does not mean it should be done.
Feasibility asks:
What is beneficial for the beloved community?
I have learned from Fred Moten that the undercommons is where fugitive life gathers — where meaning is made beyond elite capture.
The Becoming Guild lives there.
My life now is about escaping elite capture, undermining empire through lived practices of becoming otherwise — daily counterhegemony in the face of the surveillance machine.
Feasibility is not spectacular.
It is practiced.
It is what we can sustain.
It is what we can guard.
It is what can grow under watchful love.
🌧️ Grief & Joy
Perhaps care and feasibility belong together.
When we allow grief and joy to coexist, the feasibility of another possible world becomes clearer. Not easier — clearer.
We do not deny collapse.
We ask what can still be nurtured within it.
Feasibility is not optimism.
It is disciplined hope.
🔁 The Refrain
Another world is not demanded of us—
it is invited through attention, care, and courage.
🌿 Fugitive Somatic Practice
Holding What Is Feasible
5 minutes. Gentle.
Sit comfortably. Let your breath settle without correcting it.
Place one hand on your heart, one on your belly.
Ask quietly:
“What can I hold today?”
Name one thing that feels feasible — a conversation, a meal, a page of writing, a moment of rest.
Then name one thing that is not feasible right now.
Release what is not feasible without shame.
Whisper inwardly:
“Limits are wisdom.”
This is fugitive care.
It refuses collapse as destiny.
It practices possibility within season.
🕯️ Closing
May your grief be held within community.
May your limits teach you discernment.
May your stories guard you.
And may feasibility — wisely tended —
become a seed of another possible world.