Category: Love Notes Newsletter (page 5)

Remember this in the darkest moments, when the work doesn’t seem worth it, and change seems just out of reach: out of our willingness to push through comes a tremendous power… Use it” Stacey Abrams Beloved Community, 2020 taught us…

Many of us are trained to believe that resilience means toughing it out, going it alone, and suppressing our fears. In this time of multiple pandemics, we experience true resilience as leaning into interdependence and vulnerability, and connecting to the…

“Until I am free, you are not free either.” Fannie Lou Hamer The forces of oppression would like us to feel uncertain about whether we have a future at all, so planning for 2021 feels like an audacious act of…

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou The original stewards of the land we farm in Grafton, New York are the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of…

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” Angela Davis A sunflower we grew. As autumn descends on us, we, like so many others, find ourselves reckoning with the challenges…

“I dare to be powerful. I use my strength in service to my vision.” Audre Lorde From left to right: Cheryl, Justin, Naima, Emet, Laura & Ria, Azuré, Kiani, Jonah, and Leah. In forests, mycelium networks connect trees, transporting sugars,…

Wherever we are, in any environment from urban to rural, we are here on earth. We can be comforted by the earth in our sadness, we can be held in our sorrow. I am learning not to underestimate the true…

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