Creating Change

what we practice at the small scale sets the patterns for the whole system.

When we emit emotional energy through our thoughts, feelings, and actions, it has the potential to affect not only us but also those around us.

We must offer people a vision of how things could be and the opportunity to connect with the people, projects, and movements that can bring this vision to fruition

“I keep coming back to community as the solution,” he writes.12 To brave shifting conditions, we will have to strive to create communities “in which everyone’s basic needs are met,” because “leaving people out eventually costs everybody.” Interdependence and the social skills that facilitate that connectedness or cooperation are at the heart of

all that you touch

you change

all that you change

changes you

the only lasting truth

is change

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The micro reflects the macro and vice-versa — Fibonacci patterns show up from space to cauliflower. The tiniest most mundane act reflects the biggest creations we can imagine.

Kat Aaron.

“So I think a lot about starting with asking, ‘What do you want? What do you need? How can I help? Here’s what we’re working on. How does that sound to you? What are we missing? What else is needed?’ Not ‘Do you want to get involved?’ or ‘You should get involved.’”

the cultivation of joy as a form of sustenance and a means of rebellion.

We are still mostly misdirected, turned away from the wisdom that is our inheritance. Joanna Macy speaks of the “great turning,” a collective awakening and shifting direction, away from the wanton destruction of this planet and each other, away from those practices of separation and competition listed above, towards life and abundance. I like this