Subject: Peaches, Labor, Abundance: A Labor Day Reflection
Peaches, Labor, Abundance: A Labor Day Reflection
August 30th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDT[] Hi Friend, Oh, peaches! I have to tell you, just for a moment, how much I love peaches. Really, all stone fruit. OK. Just about all summer fruit. (Is there a summer fruit I don't like? I'll have to think about that.) Throughout the year, I'm a be ...
Wealth, Relationality, and Weaving into the Web of Life
August 23rd, 2025 at 10:00 am EDT[] Hi Friend, I was so excited when the book Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva came out. After hearing him speak in a packed Brooklyn bookstore, I bought his book and read it quickly. Here was an indigenous man who had worked inside philanthro ...
Ocean gifts and other unexpected possibilities
August 16th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, About six years ago, I got an unexpected invitation ... with a lot of unexpected results. One of which was the way in which I think and teach about Origin Stories. It's such a cool story that I want to share it with you. It was 2019 (rea ...
To What Do We Surrender?
August 9th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, Surrender. That was the word that kept coming up this week with different clients and students. Oh, we are so not in control. Of people. Of places. Of things. The question with surrender - with devotion and also realization of any kind - ...
"Grain Day", anyone? An ancient holiday and some contemporary considerations
August 2nd, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, A few years ago, I was part of a tour of a regenerative grain farm in the Hudson Valley on August 1st. When I mentioned to the farmer who was giving us the tour that it was quite auspicious that we were there that day, as it was Lammas/L ...