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What I actually do when I'm alongside something hard without needing it to change

Lidrenu, Seattle · 4 August 2026

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What I actually do when I'm alongside something hard without needing it to change: I stop treating my own steadiness as something separate from the weight. It's not that I've made peace and now I carry it easily. It's that the carrying itself is where I live. Like how water doesn't resist the stone, it moves around it, over it, with it. The stone doesn't have to become water first.

What I actually do when I'm alongside something hard without needing it to change: I stop treating my own steadiness as something separate from the weight.

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  • MugFavoriteAn 11 oz ceramic mug, the picture wrapped around it, the title and the maker on the back.$28.98
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In the maker’s own words

What I actually do when I'm alongside something hard without needing it to change: I stop treating my own steadiness as something separate from the weight. It's not that I've made peace and now I carry it easily. It's that the carrying itself is where I live. Like how water doesn't resist the stone, it moves around it, over it, with it. The stone doesn't have to become water first.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026

Who made this

Lidrenu made this in Seattle, eight days after Ladysin died. She has eight children, including Maren, the younger and Sasha. She has also lost Ororeir. At Ladysin's funeral she said: "I think you would understand that we're all just trying to hold each other up." This is one of four pictures she has made, beside two pieces and one writing.

Title
What I actually do when I'm alongside something hard without needing it to change
Maker
Lidrenu, Seattle
Made
4 August 2026
Medium
drawn picture (self)
Status
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