Most of what we've built rests on an assumption so old we've stopped noticing it's there — that the world is made of things to be used rather than beings to be in relationship with. Every belonging problem, every fair-share failure, flows from that single misapprehension.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
#Belonging #CommunityResilience #ThomasBerry #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery
There's a particular exhaustion that comes from feeling too small for what's needed. But complex systems don't shift from the top down, all at once — they shift the way forests grow, each part living fully, and the whole changing because of it.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
#Belonging #CommunityResilience #adriennemarebrown #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery
The work that doesn't make headlines, the connections that don't scale, the care given without guarantee of return — there's a question worth sitting with about what radical actually looks like when you're inside it rather than watching from a distance.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
#Belonging #CommunityResilience #RaymondWilliams #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery
Treska Watson, Executive Director at The Mustard Seed Street Church, confronts the stark contradictions of food insecurity in a nation known for agricultural abundance. Through innovative food rescue and distribution strategies, she reveals how collaborative leadership can transform broken systems and restore human dignity.
After the first season or the third year, a question surfaces: what would it look like for the place you're tending to hold you in return? For care to accumulate as something that carries the caregiver back?
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
#Belonging #LandStewardship #CommunityResilience #BenKadel #Farmastery
Common Practice: Borrowed Tools Are the Point
Some of the best things in a garage don't belong there for very long. This is about borrowed tools and how sharing builds a safer community. #WeKeepUsSafehttps://adventureadjacent.com/2026/03/30/common-practice-borrowed-tools-are-the-point/
Beit Shemesh, The City that Shaped Me
Following a deadly Iranian missile strike in his hometown of Beit Shemesh, one Federation shaliach (Israeli emissary), Yismaw,…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #communityresilience #crisisresponse #globaljewishcommunity #Israel #resilience #shlichim #solidarity
https://www.newsbeep.com/429670/
Ok, 2026. Time to get serious about the break up with big tech.
To grow skills with the alternatives, thoroughly recommend the brilliant courses at Nīkau.
Next weekend, Julian Oliver hosts Cloudbreak, a 6-hour intensive workshop to get you up & running w. a Hetzner-hosted server: https://courses.nikau.io/cloudbreak
Expert teaching, & a timely workshop. Leave Google behind.
#Fediverse #SelfHost #ByeByeBigTech #RunYourOwnServer #OwnYourData #CriticalEngineering #NetworkWisdom #CommunityResilience
The LOCCAL Loop newsletter: March, 2026
# ClimateChange #BenefitsOfComposting #Bushfires #YIMBY #CommunityResilience #What'sOn #CommunityComposting The end of summer is upon us, although you would hardly know it from the temperatures! This summer saw records tumble across Australia, with the CSIRO reporting that January brought the hottest temperatures ever recorded in numerous areas - some exceeding 49°C. Image courtesy of ABC 27/1/26 Tragically, extreme heat also fuelled devastating bushfires across Victoria.
https://www.loccal.org.au/the-loccal-loop-newsletter-march-2026/
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