Inspired by the luminous Glennon Doyle:
250 years later, what is Independence Day?
The Declaration of Independence was a bold break-up letter overthrowing tyranny as well as a love letter to collective power resisting authoritarian rule courageously cultivating mutual flourishing beyond what they had known.
Friends, as we witness such unapologetic violence and intimidation, history reminds us that authoritarian regimes scapegoat the most marginalized among us.
As such unchecked abuses of power terrorize our beloved immigrant, queer, Muslim and brown neighbors, we know:
What befalls any of us
befalls all of us.
As fraught as the American experiment is, dissent in the spirit of cultivating deeper belonging is the thread connecting our founding fathers as well as abolitionists, suffragists, temperance and civil rights leaders as well as you and I.
What is liberty but the love of lives beyond our own?
This Independence Day, let us lean into the paradox of independence and interdependence:
All of us need all of us.
And Friends, after 12 years of selling seeds, Fruition has committed to cultivating gift economy, sharing seeds as relational, intergenerational, exquisite gifts:
too heart-broken to continue selling our kin and so utterly in love with seeds, we devote ourselves to the magic of shared abundance, risk, life and love.
Why not democracy, too?
We could not do this without you…
…and here you are.
Thank you 💛
Sow Seeds & Sing Songs,
& the Many Possibilities of Fruition
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We pledge allegiance to the Earth
Of life and death so nourishing.
And for the future, we humbly tend
InterBeing
Indivisible
with belonging and ripe berries for all.