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| ISSUE NO. 720 |
| HOW FAST . . . are you moving today? How fast does the world around you seem to be moving? When you breathe and change your point of view - from your keyboard to the external landscape, or from your mental landscape to a tiny detail of the physical world - how fast do things move? And when you feel pushed to maintain speed, whose voice is the one holding that pressure? The turn of the year, according to the Gregorian calendar, is one of the fastest we experience, on a social level. The intensity of 'official' means of passing the boundary from one year to the next, and the accessories we are pressured to bring along with us, are overwhelmingly noisy. This is a time of intense questioning, clearing, organizing, and - perhaps above all - dedicating and rededicating ourselves to what we care the most about. And yet, the moon has been moving through its phases, the seasons changing, eclipses occuring, solstices turning, all throughout the days, regardless of how we label, number, identify or celebrate them. If you boil all your efforts to dedicate yourself down to centering on your values, we are wondering what would happen if you then proceeded very...slowly. It's not a trick, or a hack, or a secret ingredient to doing more, or less - it's a gentle pat on the hand, as you dedicate yourself to something this year, asking you to proceed one hour at a time - maybe five minutes at a time - and see how it changes your approach and your progress. In the words of Justin Vernon, in conversation with Brandon Stosuy for The Creative Independent, "You look at our capitalist society and people who are so enthralled with themselves and their own stories because they're afraid to die. They're afraid to stop expanding, and need to piss on every bush that they walk by. You know what I mean? You don't need to expand, you don't need to become Walmart. You don't need to do that in order to be successful. You don't need to walk on others. You need to walk next to them to have a satisfying life." Before we go, a quick update on our sharing of a fundraiser for Kite's Nest at the close of 2024: 181 people, clicked on our link to donate - just 0.5% of the 35,000+ people that opened the newsletter. And while we don't know how many of them actually followed through, or how much they donated, we do know that the impact was magnified by your collective action. Donations are still open here if you want to continue sharing the potential for change and help them reach their goal. If just 10% of the people who open this newsletter click through and donate $10 each, it would contribute $35,000 toward their goal. The collective impact has huge implications for an organization that practices the type of liberatory education we collectively need, now more than ever. To collective change, |
tidbits...resources on anti-racism, environmentalism and food culture AKA stuff we're reading / listening to / watching / noticing / thinking about / captivated by this Tuesday . . . Do One Small Thing . . . each week we highlight one small contribution to the type of world we want to live in: this week we're leaning into nourishing care. Tell us, what is one go-to meal you like to make for dinner? |
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