Like a tree by a stream
Planted deep in the soil of history
Leaf green soul
outstretched, accepting
spring and winter
fire and ice
Roots to fruit
The sap of transforming
Rebecca Silva-Faville
Notes from a workplace contemplative—where the inner life meets the outer setting
I’m an average middle-class worker, a registered nurse, pursuing integration of work, home, and community. One seamless, healthy existence lived out in many contexts, seeking to move with openness and curiosity first, then advocacy; Held as a small, beloved part inside a much larger, mysterious story. I draw on many perspectives and disciplines to explore how my/our participation in a broken system may contribute to wholeness, reconciliation, and (if at all possible) redemption.