Category: Love Notes Newsletter

To tend the Earth is always then to tend our destiny, our freedom and our hope. bell hooks,Belonging: A Culture of Place Tender Greetings Beloved Community, There’s a particular energy to this time of year — not the quiet threshold…

All flourishing is mutual. Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer Warm Greetings Beloved Community, March arrives in quiet gestures — softened winds, thawing ground, the return of birdsong. We find ourselves at a threshold, no longer held in winter’s stillness, not yet…

We should have a land / Of trees, / Of tall thick trees, / Bowed down with chattering parrots … Ah, we should have a land / Of love and joy and wine and song… Langston Hughes Sweet Greetings Beloved…

Grief is not resignation; it is a demand for justice. Javier Sicilia Sweet Greetings Beloved Community, January settles in with a quiet that can feel both sheltering and heavy. The land rests under frost and shadow, and our community is…

Seeds of Courage, Roots of Change Courage is a force that shapes worlds. It is the steady drumbeat beneath every movement for justice, the spark that turns possibility into practice, the power that pushes roots through stone. At Soul Fire Farm, courage is not…

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change. Octavia E. Butler Sweet Greetings Beloved Community, By November, the land has settled fully into her autumn body—cool mornings,…

The only way in my mind to get things to change is by working with the community — one on one, one on one, one on one — to create a sense of security within ourselves, belief in who we…

More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings we are able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about…

You can’t have food security without land security. Dr. John Boyd Jr. Sweet Greetings Beloved Community As summer winds down, the land starts to shift—slower mornings, softer light, and crops reaching their final stretch. The earth has a way of…

Land is the only thing God ain’t making no more of Fannie Lou Hamer Sweet Greetings Beloved Community This month, we return to the knowing that our liberation lives in the land—in the calluses on our hands, in the rows…