💚10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS

Happy Earth Day and full moon vibes, beautiful beasts!

Of course, we don’t just live on Earth—we are OF Earth. With Earth. We ARE Earth. There is no separation.

May we all fall in love with each leaf and dew drop, each dawn and dusk, with ourselves and each other. May we open all our ears to birdsong and all that is being invited at this moment, both the challenges and opportunities. May we cultivate our wild souls and sink into the wisdom of flowing water, elder trees, and mountain consciousness. May we breathe into ever-expanding circles and embody gratitude for the interconnectedness of all our relations that makes our lives possible. May we cultivate brave healing for all our sacred wounds, the wounds we inflict and the self-imposed wounds of supposed disconnection with Earth and each other.

No beach cleanup, no political party, no ‘green’ product, no EPA rule itself will save us and the planet, but this reclaiming of intentional relating can usher in the needed transformations. As emergent strategy shows us, tiny manifestations emerge and combine until a whole paradigm shifts.

The ripple becomes the wave. The waves become new worlds.

Of course, Earth Day is every day, week, month…every moment. We can honor the day by becoming re-enchanted, by offering our unique gifts to a world in need, by practicing co-liberation with each micro-action, by keeping our muscles of imagination robust and full of surprises, and by committing ourselves to that next right step in this Great Turning.

Thank you for reading.

Wishing you an embodied, emboldened, empassioned, and emergent week!
with spontaneous emergences and the slow growth forest of us,
Ryan

🌏Anchor in an unshakable ecospirituality (rooted in deep time, reciprocity, humility, gratitude, love, enchantment, animist relationality)

🌏Slow down. Allow something new to emerge. Practice skills for building sky (spaciousness) & earth (grit) within (i.e. regulating our nervous system). Practice Erecting your No, stretching your Yes.

🌏Befriend your watershed, get to know your plant kin, praise the soil, listen to River & tree elders, don’t forget the smalls

🌏Support & become accomplices in indigenous sovereignty, frontline water & earth protectors, black liberation, reparations, relocalizing & post-capitalist economies, anti-imperial imaginings, & #Landback efforts. Decolonization is not a metaphor.

🌏Celebrate your senses, revel in ecosensual pleasure, allow awe and wonder to move you.

🌏Tend the vast rivers of grief & rage. Co-create & participate in cultural containers of trust that hold the charge of inter-generational sacred wounds (traumas) together, that tend the pain at the root of impulses to dominate & possess,
and that cultivate deep connection and imagination

🌏Listen deeply for your particular callings & follow them with the commitment of a monarch butterfly’s pilgrimage—beautifully, ridiculously, and like a sacred royal fool (what is yours to do and discerning when and how you get pulled off center)

🌏Build your capacity for discomfort (discern the difference between danger & discomfort)

🌏Chip away at inherited maps, Disrupt supremacist and power-over scripts, Divest from Empire (most ecological thing we can do is compost Patho-Adolescent Incarceral White Modernity, the mad mansion we find ourselves within). Re-Invest in cultures of Care and Repair.

🌏Learn to dance in fields beyond hope and hopelessness. Rather, become intimate with butterflies and the seasons, pace of the moon, parts of you that you’ve neglected still flitting about inside your Meadow. Let even the most disturbing questions & daring dreams drip down the canyons of you. Relinquish the binary game of shiny hope or dark despair, but let Life live through you.…and from there, the Wild and Wingéd Way will emerge like the butterfly from the cocoon, which not even the mightiest Empire can withstand.