What we CAN do

A reflection on enoughness, creativity, and learning to honor what we already hold.

Lately, as I build out The Listener’s Lodge—a home for slow art and shared wonder—I’ve been thinking about what it really means to offer what we have, rather than mourn what we lack.

My harp teacher—the world-renowned jazz and alternative harpist, composer, and musical playwright Deborah Hensen-Conant—said something today that resonated deeply:

“Consider what you can do.
We are programmed to think, for some reason, that what we can do isn’t good somehow.
So do what you can do—and see how it works.”

For so many reasons I’m still uncovering, I’ve fallen especially hard into this hole of “it’s not enough.”