Building societal structures to hold the messiness of our relationships
Sam Presslerconnectivetissue.substack.com
Building societal structures to hold the messiness of our relationships
The answer, I think, lies in building relationships.
Toby Hemenway • The Permaculture Promise: What Permaculture Is and How It Can Help Us Reverse Climate Change, Build a More Resilient Future on Earth, and Revitalize Our Communities
All of us have ancestral memory of what it’s like to live connected, interdependent lives. We may be cut off or too far away from those traditions to claim them, but we can listen to our needs, our longings, and through ritual, rite, and practice build a way of being in the world that honors and makes tangible our connections to one another, to nat
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How cities can cultivate a sense of "membership" among their residents
Sam Presslerconnectivetissue.substack.com
But these activities are all separate from the feelings needed to fully and sustainably participate: the courage, optimism, trust, love, intimacy, curiosity. The resilience to push through the inevitable feelings of fear, overwhelm, frustration, and hurt. The stamina to go through cycles of all of these feelings and more, again and again, and conti... See more