Affirmation for life
- The Importance of touch to a caring community
We humans have many longings. To be part of a vibrant, caring, energetic and engaged community is one of the most powerful. Think about the hugs, ritualized handshakes, back patting and wrestling we engage in when we are together as a community. Look at the children. We learn the power of human touch from the loving embrace of our mothers from birth forward. That’s why when the Food Not Lawns volunteers come together to do our transformative work we hug and smile, hy-five and pat each other on the back. It’s our connection ritual. It’s about trust that leads to the feelings we experienced staring up at the joy filled face of our mothers
We come together and the level of communication and connection allows us to create a shared vision of the world we want. We create a new cultural story that honors the Community of Life we are a part of and transforms our world. We’re not going to be part of the problem anymore. Not part of the 23 million acres of lawns in America. Lawns that gobble scarce resources using over 250 billion gal of water a year. Lawns that consume more resources that the agricultural system that feed’s us. The amount of carbon released by mowing for one hour is like driving an older car 350 miles. We know how important cutting back CO2 emissions is. It’s a matter of life or death.
Our shared vision ultimately comes down to this; we make the choice for life.
