My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. Desmond Tutu Beloved Community, We are grateful for all the ways this month has brought us together. 12 of our team members journeyed to Atlanta for the…
September Love Notes
We agreed to take care of the seeds and the seeds agreed to take care of us. Rowen White Beloved Community, We hope that your transition into autumn has been ripe with sweetness!Our Solidarity Share bags are bursting at the…
Leah’s Sabbatical
Greetings friends, I will be on Sabbatical from June through December 2023. I am so grateful for your support of this period of refresh and reset, which is profoundly necessary after two decades of steadfast labor and unwavering dedication to…
August Love Notes
i have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters. Gagged by the greedy. And, if i know anything at all, it’s that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.…
July Love Notes
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. Rosa Parks Beloved Community, The requisite labor of mid-summer has a certain sacred quality. There…
June Love Notes
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. Maya Angelou Beloved Community, The month of the strawberry moon graced us with an abundant harvest. We started our regular Solidarity Share deliveries of…
May Love Notes
I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. Rosa Parks Beloved Community, We hope you are basking in the abundant sunlight that has finally reached our curve of the Earth, and finding…
April Love Notes
The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace. Chinua…
March Love Notes
And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have plowed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? Sojourner Truth Happy Spring Family! We tucked the…
February Love Notes: Program Applications Open!
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? bell hooks Greetings…