Enough to share
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Wild and precious
Enough to share
Five things we need to know about technological change
Millions of monarchs
1. Wild and precious
We were never meant to tame life, to possess it, or to get it “right.”
2. Enough to share
In “The Serviceberry,” Robin Wall Kimmerer explores the serviceberry tree as a model for abundance-oriented economics. This isn’t what we’re used to with market capitalism, but it is the north star we need. ✨
I cherish the notion of the gift economy, that we might back away from the grinding market economy that reduces everything to a commodity and leaves most of us bereft of what we really want: relationship and purpose and beauty and meaning, which can never be commoditized. I want to be part of a system in which wealth means having enough to share, and where the gratification of meeting your family needs is not poisoned by destroying that possibility for someone else. I want to live in a society where the currency of exchange is gratitude and the infinitely renewable resource of kindness, which multiplies every time it is shared rather than depreciating with use.
—Robin Wall Kimmerer, mother, scientist, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation
3. Five things we need to know about technological change
Here are Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change, by Neil Postman.1 “We need to proceed with our eyes wide open so that we may use technology rather than be used by it.”
4. Millions of monarchs
They are stunning.
Walk-and-talk coaching
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I bet you find a gem ➔ white people, black authors are not your medicine2 | it’s time to replace ambition with adaptation3 | practicing acceptance without being complacent | how to read more | the infinite well of creativity4 | the humbling spirituality of (bad) fishing | how to be a good neighbor right now | what got left out of LuLaRich | how mushroom time lapses are filmed5 | reminder to refuel👇🏼
Have a great weekend! I’ll see you again soon.
Jenny
Via Cal Newport, A World Without Email.
Via Ann Friedman.
Via Jocelyn Glei.