I recently discovered the wonderful little comic, Things Without Arms and Without Legs (A Comic About Creatures Who Are Kind), and it delights me.
But as adorable and lovely as they are all on their own, I was especially taken when I found this old post, about some favorite topics of mine: vulnerability and shame.
“Dear Things,” begins this post, which addresses the creatures directly and seeks to know what it is that their creator likes so much about them.
You don’t carry shame. Shame that slowly steel the stars, creeping up like pollution and city lights. Stars diminishing in number, the weakest lights smothered first, then a narrowing field of the brightest lights, and maybe the smog will take them too.
Things, you don’t carry shame. Sometimes you feel guilt, but that is different. Sometimes guilt can face the risk of turning into shame and presses against you, but it is a puzzling thing to be looked at, to be asked questions, treated firmly and kindly and put down. There is no shame in worry, no shame in vulnerability, just an open, natural questioning. For you, shame is not a natural piece of star stealing virtue. Even shame is something you look at without shame.
The post then links to this wonderful video by Ze Frank:
And of course, in the end, it all comes back to Brene Brown.
Many layers of linkage for a Monday. Enjoy, everyone, and come back here and tell me about your experiences with guilt, shame, and vulnerability.
Power In Your Hands 