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For days, I did not know where to begin sharing about our precious time sharing earth wisdom from Ubuntu to Kapwa from Cameroon, Colombia, and the Philippines in 3 events in the United Kingdom the last few weeks. From sharing narratives and ceremony at the Oxford Real Farming Conference with Conscious Food Systems Alliance and Animate Earth Collective to Hawkwood Center for Future Thinking, and through a co-inquiry on Deep Design for Just Regeneration with Re-Alliance and Oxfam- I felt we were held by the regenerative community in many ways that were truly healing. As storm Eowyn passes through Ireland and the UK, i feel this is the right time to reflect and express our gratitude and most of all, our solidarity. I go back to a special memory of community spirit when power went out for an entire weekend at the manor where we were hosted. It was suspected that a neighbor warming their pool in winter drained all the power of half the village. Luckily a garden shed part of a separate grid offered power for cooking. Somehow this power story paints a picture of the reality where regeneration plays a role. Our small global community survived- our hosts, artists Rosie Pearson and Anthony Turner, volunteers from Australia and the UK, our dear friend Kosha Joubert of the The Pocket Project visiting us, Mamerto Tindongan, a Mumbaki and farmer from my Philippine team, and our team from Cameroon Konkankoh Joshua, Sonita Mbah and her family. Our team from Colombia led by Margarita O. Zethelius who engaged wisdom keepers Abuela Daria and Ati Quigua who couldn’t make it due to new visa requirements, shared their wisdom online and were with us in spirit. We came from south to north to share our collective wisdom from places of historical colonization, conflict, and climate emergencies. In the aftermath of storm Eowyn, "probably the strongest storm" to hit the UK in at least 10 years, we recognize that the polycrisis is no longer just in the global majority but increasingly becoming a reality for the global minority. While enjoying our lovingly cooked dahl from the garden shed, I shared a story I read as a child about a man who didn’t have food and yet with a stone, managed to invite everyone in a village to add one ingredient after another to make “stone soup.” As we huddled in front of the fire to manage the -6 C temperature, I looked around the room with our different cultures and skin colors, I was reminded it would take all of us to address the great challenges of our generation with our shared risks and futures as a global community. Salamat, Míya, Gracias to our partners and hosts for having us (placing names in comments due to maxed out caption space) and the unseen kin of the land of *Pritanī /Brittania for guiding and journeying with us 🙏🏾 I hope that those in harm’s way find refuge and support in the aftermath of Eowyn. ❤️🩹
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