Wow. Last week was kind of a doozy.
A lot of things happening lately. The move. Learning a new way to work. Travel. Sickness. Travel again. Adventures.
It’s a lot to get used to, but I’m resilient. I got this. Thick skinned as they say.
But this week I felt like I broke. I reached a point where I could no longer contain it all.
A rhino’s skin is about 1.5-5 centimeters thick (that’s about .5-2 inches for us Americans). It helps to protect them from thorns and sharp grasses.
Despite having the thick skin, rhinos are sensitive to insect bites and sunburns. They wallow in mud to protect themselves from the harsh rays of the sun, and have a symbiotic relationship with the Oxpecker bird to help with insects (more on that in next email).
That's a beautiful dichotomy between soft and protected.
Like us humans.
This week I felt my softer side. Yes, I am resilient, yes I’ve got this. But wow, that softness is so lovely.
It felt like an opening for more empathy and more self-love.
Permission to be human. .
The rhino reminds us: be thick skinned with an open heart.