ISSUE NO. 703
JOY AND PAIN . . . 

two things that once seemed to turn into one another - switching back and forth - and now feel more like constant companions, existing together in each and every day.

This is our last newsletter until September. We've taken this break from writing in August for a few years now, and it's the only interruption to our rhythm of connection with you all that lasts beyond one week, here and there, for holidays. It has come to feel like a seasonal shift for us, something that is always bittersweet. This time around it reminds us of the need to sit with the duality. Why does it feel so hard to do that? Why not run from one to the other and back again? 

We find the answer in Carl Jung's wisdom that, "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

The intense joy and pain in all of our lives, and in the world around us, is an invitation to learn more. 

While this break is much needed for our own reflection and rest, we also hope it inspires others to take a pause or a break, change your routine, walk a different direction, sit in stillness, choose quiet over noise, or let in the voices of people whose work you admire and most need to hear right now. (We have included some of our own below in the tidbits.)

If you want to check in with our work this coming month, please catch up on our newsletters on grief, which can be read here and here, and read Sanket Jain's essay on the ancient grain, green gram. Until September, we are...


In it together,

Tay + Dor


photo by Alexa Romano

tidbits...

resources on anti-racism, environmentalism and food culture AKA stuff we're reading / listening to / watching / noticing / thinking about / captivated by this Tuesday . . .

"The triggering rhetoric around us is guiding us to change, so we can change our world. Nothing about this is comfortable, but it all seems necessary." - Elisabeth Corey writes a blog on healing from trauma, and is also offering a free series on PTSD and emotional distress, starting on August 5. 

"This is what reimagining is, a constant process of observation, curiosity, and intention." - Rachel Cargle, A Renaissance of Our Own.

"Summer is an excellent time to influence future goals with present action, intention, and presence." - Toi Marie Smith is offering a limited number of Growth + Impact sessions in August.

"I invite you to explore what it could look like to go beyond this moment" - Monique Melton offers necessary perspective and an invitation to go deeper.

"I accept responsibility to do my part to strengthen the people so that we can do the work to get free together." - Andre Henry breaks it down.

View and share this free guide to How to Write a More Equitable Job Post, and stay tuned for new resources to deepen this work.

"Plenty has been written about the economic impact of the pandemic on the food industry, but not enough about its lingering effects on the bodies of people whose mission is to nourish us." Read the latest GFJ Story on the creator behind Anjali's Cup, with words by Nicole J. Caruth and photos by Christine Han.

got a tidbit? drop it here for us and we'll share it in next week's newsletter.