You are amazing and you are going to help it be better from now on. And we certainly aren’t meant to carry it alone. This world needs you, all of you, vulnerable you. If it weren’t for the old lady who give her Lima Beans and cure her. Maybe the morphing wasn't really a result of not being true to herself like the readers are meant to think, but instead is a strange disease and lima beans are just the cure. What are your lima beans? What do you need in this moment to be wholly you? Wholly understood? Wholly present? Whatever it is, find its source and drink from its well. The lima beans would have cured Camilla even if she hadn't liked them. And nothing, not pandemic, not politics, not people, should be allowed to steal it from you. Your identity is hard earned by the talent you give to this world. All of the specialists in the world can’t give you identity. Camilla loves lima beans, but wont eat them because she wants to fit in. We are not meant to hold all of society together at the expense of ourselves. This story is about a young girl by the name of Camilla Cream. The disease that ails us can’t be cured by a vaccine. This situation wants to so fully absorb us that we don’t know who we are anymore.īut there is an antidote. And many days, no matter how hard we try to rally, we are just met with another no-win decision. Our isolation has been the perfect petri dish for the disease. It has in some ways put us at war with one another so as to distract us from being unified. So what does this have to do with where we are today? Can you relate to this allegory? This pandemic is doing its best to steal away everything that makes us great our joy, our tolerance, our culture, our power. Camilla eats the beans and is immediately cured. Nearly all of her identity is lost until a wise woman brings her some lima beans. The bad case of stripes consumes Camilla until she is totally absorbed into her environment. They can only see the symptoms of her choice. Doctors and specialists can’t determine what is wrong with her. Her case of stripes worsens and begins to extend to the world around her. So she decides to quit eating them, and, in doing so, she loses herself. Camilla loves lima beans but the other kids make fun of her for liking them. It is the perfect analogy for what I think we are all going through.Ĭamilla develops a bad case of stripes because she refuses to eat lima beans. I haven’t been able to get this book out of my mind for the last two weeks. It reminds me of a book I read to my girls when they were little. The harder we try, the more challenges we continue to face. But let’s face it, our surge capacity is fried. We talk a lot about surge capacity…that innate ability to rally enough hope and energy to make it through difficult circumstances. These last 18 months have been THE MOST challenging of my 20+ year career and that’s saying something because I once used myself as a body shield to break up a fight between two girls (much taller than I am) in a lunchroom in Little Rock in 2010. Can we talk about the elephant in the room for a minute? I know you’re all feeling it as heavily as I am.
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