Hello and welcome to Change the Verb!
You may want to ask, what does that mean? Well, the inspiration for this title came from the wonderful Eve Ensler's TED talk on embracing the inner girl in all of us. Our compassion, our vulnerability, our emotional sides, any part of us that has been suppressed, in women and in men.
Eve Ensler: Embrace your inner girl | Video on TED.com
From the transcript:
"I've been talking to girls for five years, and one of the things that I've seen is true everywhere is that the verb that's been enforced on girl is the verb "to please."Girls are trained to please. I want to change the verb. I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be "educate" or "activate" or "engage" or "confront" or "defy" or "create." If we teach girls to change the verb we will actually enforce the girl inside us and the girl inside them."
Well I'd like to expand on this further. One of the main verbs that underlies western culture today is "to consume." I want to change the verb to "produce" or "grow" or "conserve".
The seedling of this blog idea started off with the intent to blog about my adventures and lessons on organic farms. I worked on a couple and did some interviews but life has a way of changing plans and that door was closed sooner than I would have liked (for the time being at least). I realized I needed to broaden my scope, to cover something more accessible to myself and others. I hope to convey in these pages the possibilities of changing the verb, little by little, with things that most can do in their own lives. Perhaps not everything here will be accessible to all but even so, I hope you enjoy the read!
Day by day, little steps, small changes, and before you know it, you are where you set out to be, and realize the only thing to do, is keep going!
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
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