This time in quarantine has been multi-layered.
One of the things I feel even more passionate about from this experience is creating local community.
I was always passionate about this, but now I feel an urgency.
I felt a similar urgency months ago when I wanted to gather my grandmother’s recipes and home remedies from my husband’s uncle.
I felt if I didn’t write them down, they would be lost forever… like hidden treasures that one day may be dug up by anthropologists.
I sit at my kitchen table today.
I feel so certain that the rat race is not normal.
Do we really want to grind like this, day in and day out so that a very small corporate sect becomes richer and richer, while poverty hits more and more people?
Is there another way?
I want to create local community based in healthy relationships.
How do we do that?
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Heal childhood traumas
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Learn to communicate without aggression
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Foster education based in healthy children: heart, soul and mind.
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LOCAL FOOD
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Invest in local farmers
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Support local business that serve the community that benefits the business + the community
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Reject profit as the guiding light of business
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Educating children and grown ups with life skills, not iPhone skills
Food is the basis of health.
It affects every single system in the body.
We need to reconnect to our food—
Grow our own
Care about it
Support local farmers
Reject factory farmers and GMOs.
This is a wake up call for all of us.
Do we want to live in a world that doesn’t care about the planet or each other?
We have to dismantle the systems that are broken, and honestly I think all of them are fundamentally broken. We need to start building from a new place.
We need to start from a place that cares about everyone.
It’s not radical but it sure looks like it is.
When we have become do deeply embedded in a system where profit is the holy grail, it is revolutionary to think of returning to the human body as a primary benchmark for success.
It is revolutionary to say— I do not care about the money, I care about each of these humans and the earth they inhabit.
I do not care about metrics, I care about whole health.
I do not care about bottom lines, I care about ecosystems, communities, and a world wherein we can raise children who know how to live and how to love.
This only seems radical because of where we are at. But in real, human life, none of this is radical. It is only essential, and I hope we can find a way back to it.
