The energy of the season is growth, effort, wakefulness, buzzing. As much as we may be thrilled to see the sun rise earlier, and set later, as much as we may welcome the warmer weather and the beautiful things that come from the growing season, our bodies are also worn out by the shift to a different rhythm, and the demands that those rhythms place on us. 

If you are also someone who happens to be experiencing the internal energy of grief, in whatever form that takes for you personally, then you are experiencing a pull from both directions - inward and outward - that calls for attention and awareness toward your daily limits. If you have ever been bored enough to watch the grass grow, it might actually be a meditative exercise to try this week. All that energy and effort going into the reach toward the sun, all while holding the soil in place, providing habitat for insects and worms, and a place for birds and animals to forage.

Can you move as slowly? With as much singular devotion to your core values? 

In community,

tidbits...

resources on anti-racism, environmentalism and food culture AKA stuff we're reading / listening to / watching / noticing / thinking about / captivated by this Tuesday . . .
 

Swati Singh on the childhood roots of entrepreneurship.

Te-Ping Chen on how the modern workday is fueling an epidemic of isolation, for the Wall Street Journal.

We're particularly grateful for and excited about the upcoming Herban Cura Herbal CSA (community Supported Apothecary) - both because of the collection of juicy herbal formulas created from freshly harvested plants that they forage responsibly from what the Earth is growing in abundance AND because they have a pick-up spot at one of our favorite local (to Tay) restaurants lil' deb's oasis (as well as across the river and down in NYC). Snag your spot now. 

The Mohican Nation historic preservation office offered a webinar series on topics including archeological findings at the Papscanee Island and Stockbridge MA historical sites, history of land controversy, and Mohican basketry designs. You can view the recordings online here. 

The Kitchen Shrink on doing it the hard way (and learning not to do it the hard way anymore).

View and share this free guide to How to Write a More Equitable Job Post, and stay tuned for new resources to deepen this work.

"Plenty has been written about the economic impact of the pandemic on the food industry, but not enough about its lingering effects on the bodies of people whose mission is to nourish us." Read the latest GFJ Story on the creator behind Anjali's Cup, with words by Nicole J. Caruth and photos by Christine Han.

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