Surrender

When I was working with this one particular mining-impacted community, they asked me for help with selling their bags. And I initially was like, no, I'm not a salesperson. I'm an anthropologist. I'm a researcher. I'm an activist. I don't know anything about selling. I don't know anything about marketing. I don't know anything about using social media. But I had to respond to the request because I was there to be of service, and that was what I was being asked to do. So working with weavers really found me, and it's never what I expected to be doing. In fact, I resisted it for a while. But today I love this work so much, and it gives me energy. It gives me purpose.