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Poverty isn't just for Christmas (or Living in Abundance and Generosity)

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Poverty isn't just for Christmas (or Living in Abundance and Generosity)
Like puppies, poverty isn’t just for Christmas.  Poverty isn’t going anywhere soon, so it is up to those of us who have enough to help those who don’t.

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When Reality Bites, we bite back!

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When Reality Bites, we bite back!
Food is energy. Food is love. Food helps us through tough situations.  With your help, I hope to share love and nourishment with those who need it the most.

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How Do We Care For Each Other? or Creating the Shtetl We Want to Live In.

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How Do We Care For Each Other? or Creating the Shtetl We Want to Live In.

We can care for those we love, and we can care for complete strangers. We see it every day. We do it every day. Community care happens despite atrocities. Community care happens because of atrocities.

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Behind the scenes at the granola factory or why I finally raised my prices after 11 years

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Behind the scenes at the granola factory or why I finally raised my prices after 11 years

Now, more than ever, it is important to find those small businesses you love and show them all the support you can.

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Reciprocity

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Reciprocity

“You might rightly observe that we no longer live in small, insular societies, where generosity and mutual esteem structure our relations. But we could. It is within our power to create such webs of interdependence, quite outside the market economy. Intentional communities of mutual self-reliance and reciprocity are the wave of the future, and their currency is sharing. The move toward a local food economy is not just about freshness and food miles and carbon footprints and soil organic matter. It is all of those things, but it’s also about the deeply human desire for connection, to be in reciprocity...

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