Leisha There is a quiet movement happening now. You might have felt it too. It is a movement to withdraw, silently.
Something deep inside you knows that much of what plays out around us….online, in politics, in families, in culture. It does not feel right. The noise has grown too loud. The stories too shallow. The arguments too endless. Somewhere in you, a quieter knowing is asking to lead.
There are two awakenings taking place. One is personal. One is collective. The personal is where it begins: that moment when your body can no longer tolerate pretending, performing, or fighting battles that are not yours. The collective comes after, when enough of us stop feeding the noise and start tending what is real.
The art of walking away is not about abandonment. It is about alignment. It is the courage to stop participating in what keeps us small. It is the grace of choosing peace over performance, presence over persuasion. It is saying no to the game so you can say yes to life.
I have learned that not everything broken needs to be fixed by force. Some things heal when we stop touching them. Some things find balance when we stop arguing about who is right. When we step back, something wiser steps forward.
This is what the Living Ground Project was born from. A remembering. A return to the soil as teacher. A way to live and work that does not fight the world, but restores relationship with it. The ground does not argue. It transforms. It receives what falls, breaks it down, and turns it into life again. That is the model we follow.
We are learning that the revolution is not in shouting louder but in rooting deeper. Not in fixing the world from above, but in tending it from below where microbes, roots, and quiet acts of care rebuild what noise destroys.
If you have felt the pull to step back, to stop arguing, to breathe again, you are not giving up. You are waking up. You are remembering that peace itself is a form of participation. The soil knows this. It works silently, holding the world together, unseen and steady.
This isn’t about letting go…this is about letting be. There are some things we can not change and there are others we can. Wisdom is knowing the difference.
Awakening asks us to face what hurts without turning it into who we are.
Pain does not need a platform. Healing does not seek an audience.
The real work is quiet. It chooses depth over display.
It turns attention inward, toward what wants to grow.
It honors roots instead of rehearsing stories.
It makes room for a future not defined by the past.
This kind of healing does not shout.
It does not need to prove anything.
It simply becomes more alive.
And maybe that is what we are being asked to become now.
Not louder voices, but living ground.
Where healing can take root again.
(The photo is a Gratitude card game I created for customers at our Gratitude Cafe at the Project Site)
