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Protected: Team Meeting Feb 28
February 2026
Metamorphosis
The wild thing, I imagine is that the butterfly remembers when it was a caterpillar even though its brain dissolved into liquid and formed again into something entirely new, the wonderous miracles of life. I have been thinking about that a great deal lately, about dissolution and about how life …
Protected: Estrangement
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Accepting Our Nature
Are we Nature? There is something deeply human about pretending we are exempt from the rhythm we see everywhere else. Are we in this alone? Can we actually learn from observing nature and how she works? The trees do not protest autumn. The river does not argue with the ocean. …
Building What Outlasts Me
There comes a point in any serious endeavor when energy and vision are no longer enough. What carried something through its early years, instinct, drive, and determination, must eventually give way to structure, clarity, and deliberate design. This is that point. The work has grown, the land has responded, the …
Protected: Leisha’s 30-Day Terrain Protocol
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No one gets out alive.
That is not a dark statement; it is simply ecological truth. We are born into matter and microbes, we move through seasons of growth and decay, and we return what we borrowed. The illusion that we can engineer permanence, sterilize risk, or purify ourselves out of vulnerability is one of …
Lessons of the Trees
In Ecuador we do not experience winter in the way I once understood it. There is no snow settling into silence, no frozen ground insisting that everything withdraw. And yet the seasons still speak here, only in a different dialect. The land moves between dry and rain, between dust and …
Growing Pains
This is not the article people see when they scroll past a photograph of green gardens, bright salads, ferments bubbling in glass jars, or smiling faces around a Gratitude table. This is the part that sits behind it, the part where creation is not curated, but carried. Living Ground did …
Carrying Living Ground
Most people do not see what happens behind the scenes at Living Ground. They see gardens, food, quiet beauty, and perhaps a vision they can touch for a moment. What they do not see is what it actually takes to hold this together. They do not see the layers of …