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Steven Foster's avatar

I enjoyed this read so much. I hope one day you'll read the book Garden City. In fact I'll send it to you. It's about exactly this. We were not made to have our work be our identity or our meaning. But once we off load those burdens from work, work in fact can be a beautiful thing.

And I look forward to continuing to read the beautiful things you post here!

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Rachael Tiss's avatar

Damn, what a power piece 👏🏽 So much of what you say speaks to me. I especially loved these nuggets:

"Work can be the way I join my husband in bringing alive our dreams as a family, and work can be the way I get away from the expectation of babymaking and caregiving. Work is my doorway to new social situations, my license to travel, and my gateway to new, unfamiliar worlds."

"Even at its worst, getting to work is freedom. At its best, getting to work is self-discovery and self-care."

Work is a means to define myself beyond the identity-roles of wife, mother, caregiver. Yet, I don't define my identity through work.

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