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DIGITAL COLOR HUNTING
Kate WeinerApril 23, 2018 Comment
FORAGING FOR EARTH PIGMENTS
Kate WeinerApril 16, 2018 Comment
MAKING NATURAL WATERCOLORS
Kate WeinerApril 9, 2018Comment
MEET OUR ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE ELLEN JULIA BROWN
Kate WeinerApril 3, 2018Comment
RUN AWAY
Kate WeinerOctober 8, 2017Comment
WE ALL LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE
WE ALL LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE
Kate WeinerOctober 2, 2017Comment
WHAT HAVEN WILL WE HAVE?
Kate WeinerSeptember 24, 2017Comment
THE WATER HOLDS THE WISDOM
THE WATER HOLDS THE WISDOM
Kate WeinerSeptember 17, 2017Comment
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Love this writing prompt from @earthisohana for the Spiritual Ecology Bookshelf. Writes Kailea: "How do your practices of prayer, reverence, spirit and faith intersect with the Earth? // All communities talk about prayer. We just don’t call it prayer, but we do it all the time. We sing songs, dawn songs, morning ceremonies, thanksgiving coming -up- soon- songs. Thanksgiving all summer, all spring. All of our ceremonies are thanksgiving. We have thanksgiving 12 months a year… We built nations around it, and you can do that too. Chief Oren Lyons // The word ‘Spiritual’ can be both nebulous and all encompassing when thinking about Spiritual Ecology. I have met many people who have felt an immediate resonance with these two words in relation to each other, without always being able to define what 'spirit' means to them. For many when language fails to define a feeling the act of being in practice has the capability to transcend words. How do you relate to the earth that brings about feelings of respect and/or actions of beloved stewardship? What are your acts of thanksgiving?" For further prompts and illuminating reads, follow @earthisohana to dig deep into the Spiritual Ecology Bookshelf. 📷@eye.spray
Just a reminder, babes, that the open call for submissions to the next print issue of Loam closes on February 28th. Loam: Beauty & Being will be an immersive exploration of how we can transform beauty into a catalyst for social, ecological, and cultural regeneration as well as an opportunity for each one of us to reclaim the soft power of beauty in cultivating radical activist practices. Loam is a truly community-powered endeavor and we strive to do our best by our constellation of creatives. If you have any questions about the process, compensation, and/or pitches to share, please reach out using the contact form on our site. 📷@jessdee
Our "Micro Movements" workshop is this coming Saturday, Boulder babes! Join environmental educators @jessdee @rachel_baree and @soilandstarlight for our immersive two-hour dive into the soft power of micro movements. Through interweaving a ceremonial tea practice with the tangible creative writing and community-building exercises found in the pages of our Micro Movements workbook, our hope is that this workshop will equip you with the tools to cultivate a values-based life. A personal copy of Micro Movements is included in the cost of this workshop. Link in bio to learn more. Space is limited. 📷@jessdee
Hey babes! It's Loam Creative Director Kate writing in with an update on our evolution. As I shared earlier this year, when I first started Loam, it was a pretty homegrown passion project. My vision for Loam, however, has always been far bigger than myself. As our community grows, I want to honor that for this movement to truly thrive, I need to decenter my voice. I’ll be homing my personal reflections on a new platform—@soilandstarlight—and continue working to make representation on our website and Instagram a truer reflection of the incredible Loam community. You all are amazing and I want this space to be a mirror of your activist projects, creative contributions, and beautiful community-powered praxis. My intention is to tend to the seeds you all are sowing with the deep love, respect, and grace you deserve & I want to give a special thanks to Loam columnists @earthisohana @jessdee and @puesierre for your support in making this little offering into something with true depth. Thank you so, so much for being co-creators of this movement. As for @soilandstarlight , I’ll use this space to share meditations on my passionate (and very imperfect) pursuit of regenerative living in the heart of the climate crisis. Soil & Starlight will be a study of what it means to live in conversation with climate change as a millennial navigating modern romance and multiple jobs and meaningful living. I want to excavate my struggles, my grief, my love of permaculture, and my evolving relationship to activism in the hope that making sense of my becoming can be of service to yours. Our stories matter. Sending you all much love this weekend. 📷@elijahstvns from one of our very first photo shoots for Loam.
“For a long time, I struggled in movement spaces because I didn't always feel as if my entry point into activism was considered legitimate given that so much of what I co-create is rooted in beauty, softness, and slowness. Loam emerged from my desire to cultivate a community to uplift ‘feminine’ expressions of activism. I'm a big believer in making space for soft power to bloom. Through centering softness, creative collaboration, spiritual exploration, and embodied studies of ecological regeneration, the Loam community is truly seeding new ways of being, knowing, loving, and growing. It's been such a joy to tend to this movement because it reminds me daily that personal and political engagement in building a better world takes a million and one manifestations." Loam Creative Director Kate Weiner in conversation with @ourclimatevoices. Thanks @ourclimatevoices for honoring Loam’s vision & thank you to the Loam community for being such a sublime source of inspiration as we work together to make sense of our rapidly changing world. It’s so destabilizing & scary and you all make the hard work sweeter. There is power in the flower, in the imperfect pursuit, in the unknowing. And if you haven’t yet checked out @ourclimatevoices, DO. Their anthology of first-person narratives on climate change is a cherished antidote to apathy. 📷@austindrawhorn
Beautiful poem by @brownenvironmentalist live on their Instagram. And just a reminder loves that applications for the BEEN micro-grant for BIPOC artists close in just under 2 weeks! Brown Environmentalist is doing incredible work to "uproot and replace traditional environmentalism with narratives that acknowledge BIPOC as the leaders and caretakers of environmentalism." The BEEN micro-grant is just one of many manifestations of this mission. Follow @brownenvironmentalist to learn more about their incredible work & support creative storytelling in service of seeding a better world. 📷@brownenvironmentalist
Loam loves this luscious new collection of thrifted finds from environmental educators @stevieyaaaay and @rachel_baree. So admire how these two embody our belief that true style is rooted in sustainability, slowness, and secondhand. Beautiful snapshot by @jessdee.
"A person should be in love most of the time. This is the last proverb, and may be learned by all the organs capable of bodily response." The incredible poet, activist & badass Grace Paley for the win with these words. 📷@jessdee

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