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May you find peace in the promise of the solstice night, that each day forward is blessed with more light.
That the cycle of nature, unbroken and true, brings faith to your soul and wellbeing to you.
Rejoice in the darkness, in the silence find rest, and may the days that follow be abundantly blessed.
Here we are again, in the deepening darkness with the shortest day of the year right around the corner. Winter Solstice. What is our natural response? We bring light. We light more candles, put up strings of sparkly lights, turn on the house lights both sooner and longer.
We do the same when other kinds of darkness looms, be it grief, loss, despair, fear. Bring light, turn into the feelings, go out into nature, walk in the rain, reach out to someone, read something inspiring, listen to soulful music.
May you know the light you are. All of us at EarthWays wish you a wonderful Solstice, and the blessings of just the right amount of fruitful darkness as well as celebrating the return of the light.
With gratitude,
The EarthWays Team
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In Memory of Deborah Greene-Jacobi
We guides at EarthWays are so sorry to tell you that Deborah – our beloved friend and colleague – died on November 18, 2022, after a long struggle with cancer. Deb was such a stalwart member of our collective with such a great commitment to this work we share. She was always hugely giving of her love, her energy, her insight, her time.
We will go on without her, but we will never be the same without her.
Our hearts are hurting in the biggest big way,
Cynthia, Logan, O, Roy, Sahara, Sara, Scott, and Vanessa
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Stay tuned ~ in January
We will send out list of
New Programs for 2023
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The Living Earth Book Club
For all of 2022, a small group of women led by Sahara and Sara, met monthly to read books and take day walks on 6 different pieces of land, related to those books. All of the books were about the land, and our universe and prompted deep conversations. So, in celebration of the completion of this wonderful year together, we’d like to share our 6 books with you. Have you read them all?? Highly recommended!
Radical Joy for Hard Times, by Trebbe Johnson
The Universe is a Green Dragon, by Brian Swimme
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, by Terry T Williams
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Chimera
The Speak for the Trees, by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
When Women Were Birds, by Terry Tempest Williams
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The Lands We Love and Honor
We at EarthWays acknowledge the thousands of years of indigenous people living on this land we now call California. We honor these people who have come before us, and the indigenous people living here now…(read more…)
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For the Living
It is the work of the living
to grieve the dead.
It is our work to wake each day,
to live into the world that is.
It is our work to weep,
and it is our work to be healed.
Some part of us knows
not only the absence of our beloveds,
but also their presence,
how they continue to teach us,
how they invite us to grow.
It is our work to be softened by loss,
to be undone, destroyed, remade.
Wounded, we recoil,
and it is our work to notice how,
like crushed and trampled grass,
we spring back.
It is our work to meet death again
and again and again,
and though it aches to be open,
it is our work to be opened,
to live into the opening
until we know ourselves
as blossoms nourished from within
by the radiance of the ones
who are no longer physically here.
They have given us their love light to carry.
It is our work to be in service to that light.
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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