Date: December 28, 2021 at 8:32:04 AM EST
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Wishing everyone a joyous Christmas in whatever way it holds meaning. There will be many families who feel the happiness of a special present under the tree. Let us take a moment to send our love to the many who awaken without someone who mattered. To those who suffer alone. To those who wish to be free who are not.
There is a great story for me in this picture. It is the joy of remembering the gifts we forgot we had. Gratitude is that spark in our heart that reminds us. Many of us live the cliche of not knowing what we have until we lose it. It is easy to be complacent and take so much for granted. In an instant we are left wishing we had said this or that. We need not wait to ignite our awareness of the countless blessings of our life. The whispers of our soul can be heard while we savor this feast deeply.
However, our attention must rest on what we have rather than what we don't. Gratitude for the many places in ourselves that we can claim with appreciation. We are an extraordinary mosaic with many parts that glisten with love. We must allow ourselves to remember these. Those we may see today share the same truth. Let us pause and steep in our remembrance of the gift they are in our lives. Share this voice.
We can bring the light of noticing all that we are and have in our life. It requires us to simply write a daily story of remembering. Whether we are connecting through a virtual window or across the room, we can touch each moment with gratitude. This tree of life has so many gifts underneath it. It is my deepest wish that each of us can see all that matters. For a time today, allow your disappointments to be suspended.
May the open arms of our heart embrace the miracles of this day.
They are unfolding in every moment.
Begin forwarded message:From: "A Growing Culture" <agrowingculture@gmail.com>Subject: We believe in the power of storytelling.Date: November 24, 2021 at 3:41:48 PM ESTTo: "rafé”Reply-To: josh@agrowingculture.org
Our beliefs, our institutions, and our systems are all rooted in stories.The concepts of human rights, law, economics, statehood, rely on our collective agreement that they're true and important. It's time we recognized the power of our collective imagination — our power to reshape societies using our capacity to imagine new worlds into existence.Today, we face a crisis of imagination.We can't imagine a world without capitalism. Without the commodification of nearly every facet of our lives. It's not that we lack the facts to convince us of the errors of these structures. It's that we haven't been able to see something beyond them.We are in dire need of new stories.To move forward, we must pour our energy into imagining new worlds. A world where our food system is designed to feed people, not accumulate capital. Where we commune with Earth, not extract from it. One where those who grow our food are valued, not exploited.We see food sovereignty as a story that can unite us in radical re-imagination.Through storytelling, building collective understanding, and driving resources to peasant and Indigenous groups actively leading us to food sovereignty, we move closer towards this radical vision.
IMAGINE WITH US
A Growing Culture was founded to celebrate the culture in agriculture — to center the peasant and Indigenous voices who are actively reimagining our food system.The missing piece is not more data to prove what farming practices feed the world.The missing piece is our ability to see how interconnected we all are.How our liberation is tied to those growing food thousands of miles away.Food sovereignty is a movement rooted in that interconnection.
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Our storytelling centers the root causes of injustice in our food system and invites wider audiences to recognize our shared struggle for liberation.Our platforms and our stories are always open-source, to be shared and circulated for the growth of the food sovereignty movement.You can easily access these stories through our Food Sovereignty 101 guide.
UNDERSTAND OUR HISTORYTO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE
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THE CORPORATE PUSH FOR A FUTURE WITHOUT FARMERS
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We believe that knowledge should not be gate-kept, so we offer all of our work for free. Because of this, we depend on your support to keep telling these stories. If you believe that another world is possible, support us.In solidarity,A Growing Culture
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