Friday · October 9

Earth

Seeds in the afternoon, a forest by night. Blueprints for living on the land, and a tribe syncing to one heartbeat.

FocusRegenerative culture, the energy of the tribeLove languageActs of service

“This day is all about the energy of the tribe. So you come in as an individual and now we're syncing together as a tribe.”
Angel Robinson, naming Earth Day

How the day moved

Angel had named Earth Day the afternoon before: regenerative culture, the energy of the tribe, and acts of service as its love language. Friday carried exactly that. Joe Hawley sat cross-legged on the stage and planted a seed, the Legend of the Sacred Circle, with five values, five agreements and five circle principles held inside one watermelon seed. Jen Lynn and Billy Tetrud followed with two blueprints for living on the land: Freedom Frontier, off-grid and solar and calling in everyone it will need, and Meridia, a car-free solarpunk microcity where technology serves people.

At golden hour the lawn became a dance floor, skirts turning in the low sun and everyone welcome. MORiLLO carried us from dusk into lasers. Then Nattali Rize, solo with a guitar and all the way from Australia, planted the night's seed: a seed of freedom in every person, growing into a forest of freedom trees. Drum Temple brought us home to the heartbeat of the mother with an Aum and a line of djembes. The floor danced past midnight, a closing voice from the stage called us kin, and before dawn a few souls were still singing at the fire.

Seeds in the afternoon. A forest by night.

Words that carry the day

“One seed carried all the information of an entire watermelon plant, that within that plant is going to produce thousands of seeds from one seed.”
Joseph Hawley

“you know what else we have? The love. And that's the main reason we're doing this is the love. We want to live with our loved ones, we want to protect the people that we love, and we love this earth and we want to protect it, really protect it.”
Jen Lynn, Freedom Frontier

“in a solarpunk sort of way where it's not a cyberpunk dystopia where technology is everywhere but nobody's happy. It's, you know, you're using technology when it's good for humanity, it's good for pro-social, pro-human ...”
Billy Tetrud, Building Meridia

“every single person that has been born onto the planet is born with a tiny seed of freedom within them, and every time they have a sovereign thought it grows a little bit more, every time they follow their intuition it grows a bit more, every time they speak from the heart and act from the same place it grows a bit more ... And bit by bit we start to see this beautiful forest of freedom trees that are sprouting taller and taller across the whole planet.”
Nattali Rize, before "Freedom"