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A little taste of what’s in the upcoming Loam Love digital missive (click the link in the bio to subscribe!) Cooking nourishing remedies to fuel our tender bodies & feed our loved ones is one of the million & one ways we can manifest ceremony in our lives. Hella excited to share the Loam love with you all & grateful to @jessdee for such a stunning shot.
I am perpetually humbled by how much of the goodness growing in our lives hinges on chance. Thanks to an Instagram friendship with Kailea @harnessyourbreath that has since blossomed into a real life relationship, I learned about the Spiritual Ecology Fellowship. Through SEF, I was fortunate to connect with and learn from brilliant beings such as @littlenows @lead2life @emergencemagazine @jessicafujan @lucia_olivah @emily.semillas @cosmicfloral @thefrajo @lemle @_a_anderson @salwazizou_ @augustaxenia and @morganhcurtis. These folx inspire me endlessly & have illuminated new ways of being for myself and for others thanks to their passion for art, activism, creativity, and community building. Their wisdom & work in turn has helped me come home to a deeper sense of my purpose on this planet. How I want to grow, love, give, change, support, co-create. You never know when or how the seeds you have planted, the gratitude you have given, and the love you have shared will blossom. Thankful today for everything that is unfurling. 📷@harnessyourbreath
Taking a moment to celebrate today all the sweet things blossoming in my life. I’m one lucky duck to live the way I live & be loved the way I am loved & I feel so grateful to this world for holding me. Thank you, loamy loves, for seeding a better world thru your art & activism & energy. I hope you join me in celebrating your saucy & succulent self this Monday because WHY NOT.
“What does it mean to mother a whole generation of children into the devastation of these times? I’m scared because I don’t know. All that I do know is that suddenly my personal timeline has been yanked forward, beyond my own life and into the future of my child’s, providing a new type of urgency to understand where and how I might be most effective. Growing this life helps me to remember that my original introduction to grassroots activism was through mothers. These were women from my home on Maui who taught me the importance of showing up in my own community. From the mother who took her newborn door-to-door to collect signatures, to the single mothers who are currently running for office, back at home our activist spaces seamlessly blend family life and parenthood. These mothers continue to persevere because, as I’m learning, having a child demands a new type of engagement. I feel responsible for creating a healthier world for my baby to grow into, as well as shaping a human being that will play their part in our larger collective healing.” @harnessyourbreath speaks to mothering in the anthropocene in this gorgeous essay for Loam: Reawakening Resilience. So many of you have written to me to tell me how deeply this essay has moved you & I’m endlessly grateful to Kailea for writing with such wisdom & vulnerability & love about the choice to create. 📷@harnessyourbreath
Such a dreamy afternoon with Derek @liveculturesffs and Mara @hatchlabnet today exploring fermentation! I’m so grateful to these two for creating a magical moment at the luminous @cureorganicfarm to come together and just have FUN stirring up turmeric krauts and coriander-kissed pickles. It’s rare to have an uninterrupted afternoon to make & learn & I feel so full after having the sweet opportunity to do just that. Bodacious bouquet thanks to @lclord.
Grateful for such a beautiful conversation with my friend @rachel_baree on tea this morning & for this heavenly snapshot of such a cherished ceremony by the dear @jessdee. Loam Love is launching in a week (!) and as I work on this digital missive—the first installment explores ceremony—I have been buoyed by the reminder that ceremony lives in the little things. Every day affords us the opportunity to honor, to celebrate, to grieve, and to give thanks for our world. To join Loam in our study of ceremony, you can subscribe to the first 3 months of Loam Love at the link in the bio. It’s been a real joy to nurture this offering & to learn from & listen to my incredible friends on how to cultivate the conditions for ceremony in a culture that values efficiency. I’m hoping this missive will inspire you as deeply as it has inspired me and am wishing you all a sweet & spacious Sunday.
Thanks to @lclord for the most beautiful bouquet & thanks to everyone who joined in our gathering last night. Loam is a very little community-powered project and your support during this seedling stage means so much to me. Thank you to @vesselwrks for sharing your awesome service; @rasakoffee for bringing by my favorite morning ritual; @therefillrevolution for providing set-up; @runawaypress for the beautiful goodie giveaways; @rachel_baree for helping to set the stage; and to all the folks who stopped by. Your compassion & creative community & understanding that this is a labor of love that’s still very much finding its way into the world is truly cherished.
In love with this sublime look from @dominiquedrakeford whose work as a stylist creating at the intersections of sustainability & social justice is featured in the current issue of Loam. Fast fashion is one of the most pernicious threats to a stable climate, upholding the fossil fuel plutocracy & the patriarchy through its marginalization of mostly women of color in formerly colonized countries. As consumers, however, we have the power to spark change & seed justice through what makers we choose to support. No person should suffer in service of a new frock; no river should choke from synthetic dyes. From shopping secondhand to supporting slow fashion companies to funding worker-owned cooperatives, there is so much each one of us can do to shift the tide. To feel resourced in this work, I turn to folks like @dominiquedrakeford and @aditimayer for inspiration; makers like @jess_schreibstein and @kryystaa for creative energy; and SO many more artists & sewers & visionaries & cobblers who recognize that the story of what we wear shapes our world. 📷@timothy_smith_

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