Good Morning, Earthlings!
How are you doing? I’ve been out of routine for weeks now, traveling to visit the grandkids, having them travel to visit us in Vermont, and pausing to take care of myself. But here we are, here we are. So much bad news. Southern Vermont in flood, Northern Vermont in drought. It’s crazy! So much crazy going on right now on nearly all fronts. What to do? What can a person do to help heal the pain of our world right now? Here are some small things to try: 1. Don’t shoot yourself in the heart (as I have) by consuming too much news. But if you do, try Prune Harris’ Energy Medicine routine for Anxiety:Prevent Panic Attacks and Overwhelm with This Powerful Technique - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS32F7wMoto 2. To give perspective, here is an excerpt from Sophie Strand’s essay, Deep Life that I saw on Facebook this morning:"Most of life is below your feet. Your whole human lifespan might be embraced by the duration of a single carbon exhale. Your life is intimately orchestrated by dance of bacteria and fungi and archaea five miles below your body. And your body is made of carbon, carbon released from the earth’s stone lungs. You are intimately, physically crafted out of the earth’s breath. Activist Adrienne Maree Brown suggests we try to create movements that are an inch wide and a mile deep, rather than a mile wide and an inch deep. She suggests we deepen our relationships with the people and the ecosystems right outside our door. Superficial relationships will wash away with flooding. We need roots. We need to realize that entanglement with our surroundings isn’t a weakness. It is strength. The more involved we are with our ecosystems, the more they will support and nourish and delight us. Walking down by the river, watching the doves surge up from the river island and twist through the bridge’s pylons, I think I am no longer a visitor here. I have put down roots. And the roots have melted into mycorrhizal systems that tie me into the conversations of trees, the inky wisdom of the soil, the hidden pockets of fox breath, snuggled up in a den under an oak tree. " 3. Join and share this webinar about reversing drought with water catchment systems: Hi , I know drought is on all of our minds right now. We face record heat waves and wildfires, and everyday we learn about how our water supplies are dwindling down to crisis levels. What if the solutions for reversing drought came from people in some of the poorest regions on earth? What if these water revival systems also created a way out of poverty, reversed migration, and allowed girls and boys to go back to school? We wanted to share a webinar that tells this story, because it’s a blueprint for how to reverse drought in some of the driest, resource scarce areas on earth. Sign Up for the Webinar Minni Jain is the director of Flow Partnership, and helps communities across the world fund and organize decentralized water catchment systems. These projects have become a lifeline for ecosystem restoration, and community resurrection. In areas depopulated from desertification, drought, and migration, these water catchment systems provide a way back to a stable ecosystem and livelihood. She’ll be sharing case studies and stories from across India, African and Europe about water system restoration. We hope you’ll join us on this webinar on Thursday, July 22 because you’ll learn how communities can reverse drought and restore their ecosystems, even while living in poverty. We'll also be sharing an opportunity to help fund water catchment systems in South Africa and India during the webinar. Have a great week and hope to see you Thursday. -Raleigh Latham (Sustainable Design Masterclass)/Water Stories 4. Watch this wonderful talk with Rich Holshuh https://drive.google.com/file/d/19g1BV8xjj53fL6tSOp98MRFNpiCVYtxW/view?usp=sharing where he clarifies the relationship of the individual to the group in Native American culture. It gives us a blueprint for a compassionate, practical, caring society where everyone is valued and all of Nature is valued as well. For that is not only what our culture/our world needs now, but what we MUST create to survive. Billionaires blasting off into space? Not any kind of solution to Earth’s problems. Water. Air. Fire. Earth. Miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle! Open our hearts and minds to miracle (the nature of the Universe) and a culture of care and love and balance is possible. I hope you will watch this talk by our local spokesperson for the people who lived in balance here on this part of Earth for ten thousand years before Europeans came. Rich is now creating The Atowi Project Atowi is an Elnu Abenaki community initiative to affirm Native relationships to the Land and its inhabitants, raise Indigenous voices, and foster inclusion with understanding, in place. Learn more at the Retreat Farm in Brattleboro, and at www.atowi.org. AND REMEMBER THIS: Earthly beings... You are comprised of: 84 minerals, 23 Elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells. You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed, according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix and small enough to be carried by a sperm. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s most complex living thing. You are not living on Earth. You are Earth.~~ ~ Aubrey Marcus with love and hope for our planet and our people and our plants and our water and our animals, Caitlin Adair
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