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Today thru Sunday, November 19th, Loam will be donating 100% of sales from Reawakening Resilience to diverse wildfire relief, forest ecology, and community resilience efforts, particularly the CCF Wildfire Relief Fund & The John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute. These initiatives are vital to responding to this crisis through advocacy & on-the-ground action. Click the link in bio to learn more. Photo of Loam contributor @dominiquedrakeford digging into Reawakening Resilience by @timothy_smith_
Grounded in gratitude for the sweet things. How good our earth is to us for continuing to feed us even as she suffers. How hard so many farmers on the frontlines are working to seed a regenerative future. How wildly lucky I am that I can afford to cook myself a nourishing lunch each day. As I sat down to eat my new favorite meal this wintry afternoon—chickpea pasta in a homemade plant-based Mac Mama sauce kissed with gomasio, ghee, and kraut and crowned with a farmers’ market egg—I felt flooded with thanks for every hand & seed & stratum of soil that gifted me this meal. Thank you, thank you. None of this should be taken for granted.
When we recognize that healing ourselves is bound up in healing our earth, self-care transforms into a radical resource for resilient living. Like many of my friends and family, I have been tender hearted these last few days, heartbroken by the wildfires in California, hurting for the human and non-human communities in harm's way, and angered by Big Oil's stranglehold on politics. Even as I make donations, organize projects, share love, and send up prayers, I continue to feel inadequate. It hasn't been easy to remember that no one person can do it alone; we only ever nurture, transform, and regenerate as part of an ecosystem. Striving to come back to groundedness and to return to reciprocal community has meant giving myself the space for self-care by sleeping in late, drinking more water than I think I need, and creating a political engagement game plan so that I can alchemize my anxiety into action. How are you tending to yourself today, sweet one? Are you getting enough to eat? Are you making yourself receptive to love? Whatever it is you need to heal, feed those seeds. And if you are searching for inspiration on self-care as imperfect & irresistible process, I cherish @sanajaverikadri interview in @golubkakitchen; @dominiquedrakeford meditations on slow living; and @mollyccostello regenerative art for always reminding me to give thanks. 📷@asimplealternative from Loam: Nourish
In so many ways, living through climate change is learning how to navigate the relationship between waves of grief and swells of gratitude. Grieving today for the wildfires raging through Southern California—for the loss of life and for the homes that have been destroyed and for the families, human and non-human, who have been displaced. And grateful, too, for the snowfall that flooded the foothills of my home this past weekend. I live in a region that is vulnerable to wildfires, too, and in the face of so much destruction, I do not take this precious precipitation for granted. To everyone impacted by the wildfires, I am sending deep love your way. It's truly heartbreaking to make sense of this new normal. 📷@wildacorn
This week has been very emotional so taking a moment to celebrate the bodacious beauty that went into last night’s nourishing soup & give thanks for the farmers who grew this good food.
In the aftermath of the midterms, when so many climate policies didn’t pass, I’ve found myself returning again and again to the idea of finding my place in the ghost tide that the brilliant Nina and Sonya @thefarwoods spoke to so beautifully in the recent Loam Love missive. Big Oil might have money but we have people power. I believe deeply that most folx care about our climate & want for a better world but might not have the time, economic, racial, and geographic privileges to wholly embody their values. To make it easier for our communities to embody our visions, each one of us needs to figure out how we can nurture the ghost tide toward creating a sea change in our collective responses to social injustice & ecological crisis. What will be our role in the subtle shifting of minds and movements? How can we come into our power as energized & engaged earth citizens? And what can we do to stay true in our work toward nourishing new ways of being? Snapshot by @jessdee of a delicata squash & roasted apple risotto kissed with @diasporaco turmeric from Loam Love because feeding our loved ones is always a powerful first step in fueling the ghost tide toward greater connection.
Grateful for a nourishing tea ceremony last night @livingtea guided by @marianarittenhouse to honor new moon energy. It was so sweet to share in that space with my loves @jessdee and @rachel_baree & I’m thankful to Living Tea for creating a container for connection to earth and each other. 📷@jessdee for Loam Love.
Woke up this morning feeling all the feels. Proud of everyone who showed up at the polls; humbled by the activists who campaigned hard for these midterms; grateful for folx who worked against voter suppression; thankful that we now have 100 women in Congress, several of whom are Indigenous, Latinx, and Muslim; awed by the reenfranchisement of 1.4 million primarily black men in Florida; and heartbroken, too, for the climate initiatives that did not pass, particularly Prop 112 in Colorado where I currently live. Although there is so much to celebrate, I needed to take time this morning to grieve that loss. Prop 112 was an important measure toward keeping it in the ground by establishing commonsense setbacks from fracking wells. I'm sad today for all the children whose air and water are already being poisoned by fracking in Colorado whose lives will continue to be under siege and I'm angry that Big Oil & Gas devoted 40 million to manipulating Colorado constituents to vote against their interests and made progress in their mission. As I reflect on the midterms, I'm striving to celebrate every win—because every win matters—and reframe every "loss" as an opportunity to affirm our collective agency as regenerators. Because although there were several climate "losses" in states across the country, it's necessary to remember that it's only ever our acts of complicity—in what we consume, eat, and invest in— that define true loss. And so I'm writing this for myself today as much as for you all because I need to hear it: continue to resist, continue to regenerate, continue to care, and continue to honor our collective agency. The fossil fuel plutocracy will only win if we let 'em. There is so much we can still do to fight back—even when the initiative we canvassed tirelessly for didn't pass and the candidate we believed in didn't win—and I want to be a committed and compassionate part of that fight. 📷@lvdudek from Loam: Reawakening Resilience

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