issue 4: Kinship with Nature
In this issue we explore just a few ways humans can and are working with Nature in creative, collaborative and mutually beneficial ways.
To more fully comprehend the impact we have on each other’s lives, we must first acknowledge the profound intelligence inherent within all of Creation. With that great and creative intelligence comes a deep interest and care for all children of Creation, particularly calling to us “Younger Brother" prodigal sons who’ve strayed.
And what does that look like exactly? A call can be a nagging issue, a subtle tugging or a persistent dream or vision that occupies our attention; a cry can be far bigger to get our attention, like a devastating natural disaster; while offerings of gifts and guidance are most often so quiet and subtle as to be overlooked if we’re not paying attention. The communication is both magical and mundane…
issue 3: Facing the Storm
We, as a humanity and planet, are currently experiencing quite a unique time in our collective story—one that is both frightening as it is hopeful. Joanna Macy and others have been calling this now very present shift The Great Turning.
I liken this time to a powerful maelstrom that sucks all within reach into its wide open spinning vortex. With nearly the entire world experiencing the effects of war, environmental, social, governmental and economic collapse… few if any of us are left untouched in some way. It may seem bleak from our limited vantage point, but what if that vortex we’re being pulled into, in a metaphorical sense, is a portal into a new future?
issue 2: Wander, Wonderment and (re)Wilding
How do you refresh, replenish and reconnect with nature and your own true nature?
For myself, I must have my early morning walk and talk with Spirit to feel myself on firm footing through the day. I hike a trail in the canyon or mountains nearby and have a soak in the living waters of the river or stream which have been immensely healing and renewing for me. This is my sacred daily medicine.
issue 1: Harmony
Welcome to the first issue of The Community Garden newsletter! The general theme for this week’s assortment is “Harmony”.
We experience musical harmony when different instruments play or different voices sing different notes simultaneously, but in a way that sounds both pleasing and integrated.
As a group of distinct individuals emitting different frequencies through our unique beingness, we can experience a kind of ‘pleasing integration of different notes’ or harmony in community. What we inevitably produce together, when relating to one another in harmonic resonance, is not only pleasing but powerful as we together become far greater than the sum of each part.