#farmastery — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #farmastery, aggregated by home.social.
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You remember the room, or the table, or the particular light, and the way the conversation moved without anyone steering it, and how at some point you stopped being aware of yourself and noticed instead the faces of the others, their ease, the way they laughed, and you knew, without quite thinking it, that this was the thing. Then it was over. And you still go back there.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/permission-to-be-seen
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The strange thing is that the feeling people keep postponing living for is often there in the middle of something completely ordinary — washing dishes, listening carefully, working beside someone — and for a moment the future stops feeling separate from the life unfolding around them.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/permission-to-be-seen
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Sometimes the strangeness of eating returns all at once — that something once rooted in soil and weather now becomes the body through which you move across the world, as though life has been quietly passing itself from form to form the entire time while we pretended to be separate from it.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/permission-to-be-seen
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Sometimes a fully inhabited moment opens onto something much larger than itself, something vast and patient that was already there waiting beneath the urgency. The ground that holds the decades is always made of days, and the days themselves are made of moments, like this one.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/permission-to-be-seen
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Some words arrive carrying more than information, and you recognize it before you can explain why. A person speaks plainly and something in you eases before you've even had time to understand why, and the sentence continues living in your mind long after the room itself is gone.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/permission-to-be-seen
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Most people who already see what's wrong aren't waiting to be convinced, but there is a fear that acting on what they already know might cost them the relationships and forms of belonging they depend on. What may change that context isn't a better argument but learning how to make an invitation with nothing hidden inside it: no aggression, no self-protection dressed as concern.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/permission-to-be-seen
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Attention that turns toward what sustains it, the way a sunflower does — without argument, without effort — tends after a while to loosen the habit of clinging, and what becomes available in that easing is usually more than the grip allowed.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-council-of-stones
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Sometimes the hardest part isn't uncertainty itself but the effort of holding yourself so tightly against it that nothing can move, and what changes things is often smaller than insight — the moment you stop treating difficulty as something to harden against.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-council-of-stones
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Some of the stories shaping what you see don't feel like stories — they feel like the way things simply are, arrived so early and confirmed so often that they've become the water you're swimming in. Sometimes the shift begins simply by noticing the story itself before you've decided whether it's true.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-council-of-stones
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The sense of moving across the world can loosen without warning, and when it does you find yourself already inside what you'd taken to be outside you — held in something you didn't arrange and don't have to explain.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-council-of-stones
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Some evenings the world gets too loud for language — overloaded, running hotter than thought can manage — and you don't look for answers so much as for something older and more patient and heavier that can draw the heat out.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-council-of-stones
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There's a model of change most of us absorbed without noticing — that the world divides into those who have what's needed and those who don't, and the work is to move resources across that gap. It's a generous impulse but it also normalizes the distance it's trying to close.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
#Belonging #CommunityResilience #LillaWatson #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery
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There's a quality of attention some creatures carry naturally — present in the world, belonging to it without having to try. We lived inside that for most of our existence as a species. The larger family of life has always included us. The question is whether we remember it.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
#Belonging #CommunityResilience #WangariMaathai #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery
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There's a version of meaningful work that looks clean in the telling — the clear vision, the steady progress. And then there are the days when the mud is just mud, the days when it's oddly satisfying, the days when it feels like too much. All of it the same journey, moving toward something that tends to reveal itself along the way.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
#Belonging #CommunityResilience #ParkerJPalmer #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery
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Most of what we've built rests on an assumption so old we've stopped noticing it's there — that the world is made of things to be used rather than beings to be in relationship with. Every belonging problem, every fair-share failure, flows from that single misapprehension.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
#Belonging #CommunityResilience #ThomasBerry #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery
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There's a particular exhaustion that comes from feeling too small for what's needed. But complex systems don't shift from the top down, all at once — they shift the way forests grow, each part living fully, and the whole changing because of it.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
#Belonging #CommunityResilience #adriennemarebrown #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery
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The work that doesn't make headlines, the connections that don't scale, the care given without guarantee of return — there's a question worth sitting with about what radical actually looks like when you're inside it rather than watching from a distance.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
#Belonging #CommunityResilience #RaymondWilliams #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery
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After the first season or the third year, a question surfaces: what would it look like for the place you're tending to hold you in return? For care to accumulate as something that carries the caregiver back?
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
#Belonging #LandStewardship #CommunityResilience #BenKadel #Farmastery
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Where are you investing your time?
Not just money. Your hours.
The work you do, the projects you help grow, and the communities you give your attention to all shape what keeps going in the world.
This reflection looks at why more people are starting to shift their hours toward building things that help life continue.
Full reflection:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-167400267#BuildWhatLasts
#Farmastery
#CollectiveMaturity
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This work hasn’t paused — it’s being tended.
As extractive funding models unravel, the Farmastery and Lifeboat Academy continue practicing economic resilience through relationship, reciprocity, and shared care.
This is a clear but gentle funding invitation — not charity or urgency, but companionship in learning how to sustain life during contraction.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-177223686
#RelationalEconomics #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #EconomyOfCare
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Sharing a gentle funding reminder for those who may have missed it.
The Farmastery and Lifeboat Academy are continuing to practise relational economics — sustaining the work through belonging, reciprocity, and shared stewardship rather than urgency or individual hustle.
This is a clear, consent-based funding ask. Support takes many forms, and there’s no expectation beyond what’s real for you.
"Courage In the Cracks" @
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A lot of what we’re facing now emerged from habits of thought that were once rewarded — efficiency, growth, control, certainty.
Fair share ethics depends on recognising when familiar thinking no longer serves, and allowing new ways of understanding to emerge through shared practice, attention, and adjustment.
This isn’t about having the right answers. It’s about staying open to being changed.
#AlbertEinstein #FairShareEthics #CollectiveLearning #LivingWithinLimits #Farmastery
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It’s often not a lack of information that gets in the way of fairness and care, but the quiet belief that we already understand enough.
Living within limits asks for a different posture: humility, curiosity, and a willingness to keep learning together as conditions shift. Fair share ethics depends on that openness — not on fixed answers, but on shared attention and adjustment.
#StephenHawking #FairShareEthics #CollectiveLearning #LivingWithinLimits #Farmastery
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This names the scale where real economic change actually happens.
Not in abstraction or ideology, but in companionship — people choosing to stay with the work of living differently, together. An economy rooted in sustaining life requires relationship, patience, and shared practice.
This is fair share ethics as lived experience, not theory.
#BenKadel #FairShareEthics #RelationalEconomy #CommunityCare #Farmastery
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This quote points to a difficult reality of collapse and care.
When people are overwhelmed or afraid, resistance isn’t always rejection — it’s often the body protecting itself. Help offered without trust or consent can land as danger.
As we move toward fair share ethics, this matters deeply. Care has to be relational, paced, and responsive — or it risks doing harm even with good intentions.
#OctaviaEButler #FairShareEthics #RelationalCare #SystemsChange #Farmastery
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From the outside, the Farmastery can look complex — many roles, many functions.
But the ground it stands on is simple: living within a fair share, treating tension as information, noticing what works, and learning forward together.
Simple isn’t easy. Most of the work is unlearning urgency, avoidance, and purity habits — and what grows in their place is relationship and flow.
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/fair-share-ethics-df9116abdea7
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“Inhabiting the cracks” names a familiar experience for many: living inside uncertainty, breakdown, and transition without a clear map forward.
This isn’t a demand for solutions or control. It’s an invitation to stay present with what’s here, and to ask how care, attention, and relationship might be offered where things no longer align.
Sometimes the work begins in the places we didn’t plan to be.
#BayoAkomolafe #InhabitingTheCracks #LivingWithUncertainty #CollapseAwareness #Farmastery
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Holding the cracks takes courage. Lifeboat Academy invites you to join—support, skill, or companionship.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-177223686
#CourageInTheCracks #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #SharedThreshold #ReturnOnRelationship
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We hold the cracks together. Lifeboat Academy invites you to join the work—skills, ideas, attention, or support.
#CourageInTheCracks #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #SharedThreshold #ReturnOnRelationship
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We’ve been tending the Lifeboat Academy quietly. Now we invite you: join in, share skills or support, and help grow courage in the cracks.
#CourageInTheCracks #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #SharedThreshold #ReturnOnRelationship
https://substack.com/home/post/p-177223686