sit time from mother earth

during covid we saw the air water and animals return. we should rmbr that it actually doesn’t take that long for natural systems to recover if we just let it happen

encouragement to show up fully when you are away

the other day, a friend and collaborator, yoojin lee, and i were talking about how hard it is to be present in convening/gathering spaces. we were particularly talking about folks we facilitate for who, without doubt, schedule other things during multi-day convenings and gatherings. i mentioned something that peter forbes and i have been saying during the better selves fellowship and she prompted me to write it out so here we are.

book review: captive genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex

book review: the compassion book

le'mn "movement" music 2022

on jan 2022, lawrence was on personal reflection retreat and remembered the joy he used to get from making playlists with friends. this was a practice he learned about from ross chanowski who used to do seasonal (i think) playlists with his friends. when lawrence and ross were working on jungle together, they would make playlists and it was a :fire emoji: practice. he thought it’d be sweet to expand the practice to some current close friends and that’s how we got there. the monthly playlist practice has brought the four of us into deeper friendship, and it’s been meaningful to weave it into our feminist men’s group by sharing a song each time we meet.