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…
January Love Notes: Growth, Care, and Abundance
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will…
December Love Notes: With Immense Gratitude
Covered in soil and sweat from an autumn morning of shared labor, we circled up to offer thanks before the midday meal. Eustacio Quino, Soul Fire bilingual immersion alum and local vegetable farmer, read us the prayer he had written,…