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A photo of about 12 different seed packets laying on yellow tissue paper. The seed packets are handmade out of brown paper with our adjournments, including cyanotype Blue, hand drawn sunflowers, and birds, stamped art, and ribbons..

A joy to be part of an Art Seed Swap this winter with The Verdancy Project here in Oregon.

What a beautiful microcosm of the collective power of sharing our seeds of beauty, creativity, and care. Grateful for the vision of
@shannonamidon.bsky.social 🌻💫

So grateful to start my day hearing from this Forest of collaboration with the living world, care for the earth and one another, imagination and possibility. Wild play and deep connection are two of our most vital portals in this time 🌱🤎✨.
@forestofimaginatn.bsky.social
@penahay.bsky.social 💕

City Park, New Orleans

Here's some green for you

The People vs. AI Across red states and blue, a grassroots movement is pushing back on the unchecked growth of the artificial intelligence industry.

Don’t believe them when they say it’s inevitable.

Wouldn’t it hit more to say “good luck on *trying* to take it?” Feels like that last line doesn’t work in writing.

YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund Expanding Our Imaginations (feat. Amanda Litman) - Charting the Way Forward Ep 57

I got really fired up in this convo with @torygavito.bsky.social and the @waytowinus.bsky.social team about what might be possible during this leadership vacuum on the left and why it's both very scary & very freeing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fSv...

The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. As the new field of environmental neuroscience proves, exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity

The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic. Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. Exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity.

Includes a quote by @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social

(Or in Roxane Gay’s perfect words: “ just a constant stream of mendacious claptrap”.)

So good to see the deep mycelial fight for democracy continue tonight❤️‍🔥.

Roxane Gay always names what we’re living through with the most potent accuracy.

And now from Washington's own @jayapal.house.gov. "People are saying 'Not on our watch' to an illegal and unconstitutional administration that kidnaps and disappears immigrants of every status who call this country home."

A deeply dear Canada story to me as a heartbroken American...when the amazing Canadian trio Wailin Jenny's came, they jokingly asked if we could sing O Canada-cue thousands of us singing full hearted, teary with them.l believe all good hearted humans are one people & I know we can keep weaving that.

And we represent a portion of SO many other Oregonians and Americans, dear @bethanyrydmark.bsky.social !!

I’m so grateful for you, Chris Murphy! Everybody in my family quotes you all the time as a light in the darkness. Please know you’re having a vital morale impact on so many of us with speaking and acting so fiercely and clearly.

The real state of the union event is here ❤️‍🔥

Oh my gosh, another American who wanted it prospectively … So pro-Canada than any of this. I hope hope Canadians can feel there are so many of us that are so sad, angry embarrassed, discombobulated and in solidarity with you all not our own government — or so called men’s hockey ARGH.

This is one of the most detailed, encouraging stories of community care happening —-right now!

Really phenomenal people that we can support too, if you need a place for your grief and love in action.

Reading Joanna Macy always helps me so deeply, whether her voice or quoted ❤️‍🔥.

Thank you @1earthsangha.org for always gathering such beautiful offerings.

So encouraging to see Oregon work on climate-and-people smart rebuilding. Really want this for my California people too ❤️‍🩹

Painting featuring two trees with pink blossom against a blue sky

'Cherry Blossom' painting by contemporary U.S impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt

Ahh my photo— taken here in the Pacific Northwest, where the camellias are very lush right now.

A photo of fuchsia pink Camellia petals fall into the ground on Greystone cobblestone by Green ferns. Over top is a text box that says: “Even your most private kindness creates a public ripple. Kindness matters. It fertilizes all that is beautiful. Kindness is radical revolution in a hostile world.” Jaiya John Fragrance After Rain

How deep kindness goes, how wide it can ripple.

Couldn’t agree more. Life non-Amazon is so, so good.

I get a chuckle when I think more than not so-useful “ purity politics”, I like to practice —freedom, solidarity, and ‘spite’ —in whatever order helps me unhook from another part of the poison.

Love this thoughtful question, feels like a vital piece for all of us with our deep attention. I use Clear Space app (free!) and it’s been amazing in giving a good container for really cutting back time significantly. So well designed!

It still utterly blows my mind, and always will, to think how an amazing being like this, its fingers reaching high into the sky, grew from just a tiny acorn, then a seedling with two leaves.

What a deeply beautiful story around the tenderness of snowdrops 🌱🤍.

If you’re near Portland Oregon this weekend, some sweet community gatherings coming up Friday through Sunday with @garrettbucks.bsky.social… Glad to share info ❤️‍🔥.

A graphic with the words “host more potlucks” in large Black capitalized letters, superimposed over a drawing of a casserole. In smaller yellow type along the right are these words: “shovel neighbor's walk/ watch someone’s kids pick up litter with friends/ throw a dance party or a game night/ whatever, as long as it's fun/raise hell whenever necessary/ be willing to get arrested, if it keeps your neighbors safe/go to city council and school board meetings, even the boring ones/ make pies and a big pot of soup anc share it with strangers/ when you need help, let others take care of you/ keep going, together.

Love this practical connective mapping from @garrettbucks.bsky.social for all the ways we can keep deepening our belonging and care with each other. Relational care muscles!

Imposter Syndrome: A Buzzword with Damaging Consequences Like many racially minoritized faculty who engage in work for equity and social justice, we are no strangers to the daily manifestations of systems of oppression and oppressive behavior in academia. R...

"Calling it ‘imposter syndrome’ hides the fact that oppressive systems teach many of us to actively suppress and hate ourselves. It’s not imposter syndrome, it is the consequences of oppression"

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Adored your newsletter on brave intimacy today… What a rich rich read and resonant to the labor and creativity of loving , the tender cracking open to each other and our own deepest wild unseen selves..