Hope for the Flowers

I have been thinking about hope and self-trust and confidence. Yesterday in a podcast, The Fluent Show, the guest, who believes in and demonstrates being a self-directed language learner, said that in learning a language outside of a classroom, one develops self-trust. Learners have to trust what they know about themselves- about how they learn best.

Good, then. This is a quality I sometimes feel needs a bit of shoring up. I have noticed that when I listen to my inner voice and support this voice by acting on it, I am my own best friend and the best friend of the communities to which I belong.

So, then, on with learning language with this fresh motivation: I am developing self trust.

This morning I drew from a book, Hope for the Flowers. It is all about caterpillars learning to trust their inner message and so becoming butterflies. And indirectly it is about the flowers who benefit. In my mind, the communities we flutter in.