is how many ways there are to love.

Which is kind of a miracle, when you think about how universal the need for love is. There's no shortage. It's a renewable resource. Except...

Love often gets put into boxes. No, not just the ones filled with chocolate...

Boxes like: who is allowed to love, and in what ways, and how much love there is to go around, and all kinds of things that are called love - that look like love - but actually are not. (bell hooks is the writer to consult on that last one.)

On a day when love is masquerading around in all kinds of costumes - some genuine expressions of their truly creative selves, others not so much - we invite you to think about...

/ when you have felt most loved in your life...

/ how you express love for those who are no longer living in the physical realm...

/ how does your love transcend romantic love - to familial love, friendship love, and love of strangers, nature, and humanity...

/ how you offer love to those you are no longer in communication with, for specific reasons or no particular reason...

/ which small offerings of love bring the most reward in the form of gratitude, pleasure, reciprocity, etc. ...

/ how your own feelings of being unloved - now or in the past - have hampered your ability to express love - now or in the past...

/ which things in your life are you loving inwardly, but not expressing or valuing outwardly...

/ and imagine one way that applying love to a current source of pain or despair might help to transform it...

We are sending love out to you, our readers and community members. Know that you all - your presence, engagement, gratitude, kindness, feedback, and questions - are the fuel to our fire at GFJ.

With love and admiration,

Tay + Dor

photo by Christine Han 

tidbits...

resources on anti-racism, environmentalism and food culture AKA stuff we're reading / listening to / watching / noticing / thinking about / captivated by this Tuesday . . . 
 
Quiet at Work is a 30-day interactive journey with Susan Cain, author of the books, Quiet, and Bittersweet. If you’re an introvert, the course is designed to empower you at work: as an employee, a colleague, and a leader. Click here to learn more and register.

Turkey and Syria will feel the aftershocks of the earthquake for years to come. Continue to help and give where you can.

"I want a movement that fights for all forms of relationships, not just the sexual ones." - Alok @alokvmenon

It behooves us all to better understand the back story - as well as the science - behind the train derailment in Ohio. 

adrienne maree brown's love-seeking comment classifieds on instagram are a way of "reclaiming this day from limited concepts of love."

Ruth Reichl reflects on restaurant closings.

Embodying Antiracism is a 3-month course that's designed for white folks who are ready to see and deliberately use their power and privilege as white supremacy culture changers.

Not Our Farm reminds us that caring about sustainable agriculture means more than caring about the product - they created a resource for you to consider how farms care about the people that produce the food. 

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.

"The process of studying history and prehistory has indefinitely lacked the inclusion and approval of Indigenous people." Read the latest GFJ Story on the swordfish hunters of North Haven Island in Maine. Words by Jasmine Michel, photos by William Trevaskis.

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