#reconnect — Public Fediverse posts

"The #OpenFoodNetwork is a global network of people and organizations working together to build a new #food system. Together, we #develop open and shared #resources, #knowledge and software to #support a better food system.

We believe a #sustainable and #resilient food system needs to #reconnect #producers and #consumers. We aim to #empower people and #communities and give them the tools and knowledge to #develop the food systems they need for their #community."

https://openfoodnetwork.org/

What are the hidden costs of #globalisation? 🤔 The documentary #film / #movie “The #Economics of Happiness” highlights how it can worsen #inequality, #ClimateChange , conflict and livelihoods - and how GDP can fail to reflect real #wellbeing.

The alternative? GO #LOCAL! 🌱 Support local food, business, finance & energy, strengthen #communities, and #reconnect with people and #nature. 🌍💚

Watch the film add-free or download on Vimeo, see https://www.localfutures.org/programs/the-economics-of-happiness/

Sunday Softening: The Quiet Art of Noticing

There is a quiet joy in spending time outdoors with nowhere in particular to be. When I slow down enough, I begin to notice the gentle things that are so easily overlooked—the way a breeze lifts the delicate tendrils rising from a cushion of moss, carrying tiny spores out into the world. A bee disappears deep into a blossom and emerges dusted in golden pollen. The angle of the evening light softens as the sun begins its descent, turning ordinary moments into something quietly extraordinary.

This slowness, this noticing, is what has brought me home—brought me back to myself. Not because the world around me has changed, but because my relationship to it has. When I slow down enough to notice, ordinary moments begin to reveal an extraordinary depth.

So much of modern life pulls our attention away from the present moment. News arrives without pause. Social media asks us to keep scrolling. Our minds jump from one responsibility to the next until life begins to feel hurried, fragmented, and disconnected from the quiet mystery that has always surrounded us.

Noticing is an invitation to move in the opposite direction.

It isn’t about clearing your mind or forcing yourself to be present. It is simply the practice of becoming curious. To notice a thought without immediately believing it. To notice a sensation without deciding whether it’s good or bad. To notice the sounds around you, the rhythm of your breath, or the feeling of your feet resting on the earth.

I’ve found that the more I practice noticing, the more I see. A walk becomes richer. A sunset reveals colors I might have missed. Even painting has changed—not because my hands became more skilled overnight, but because my attention became gentler.

Curiosity softens judgment. And when judgment begins to soften, we often discover that peace was never something we had to create—it was something we hadn’t noticed.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3OTe5WGWBsaLv2hJmU4G0b?si=f5cd4a3b718d4714

This gentle meditation invites you to slow down and reconnect with the simple practice of noticing — noticing the breath, the body, sounds, sensations, thoughts, and the small details of this moment.

There is nothing to fix, force, or achieve. Awareness itself is the practice.

Morning breakfast at a great coffee shop opposite the hotel. Great conference #reconnect - followed by a short holiday, Brownsea Island, Poole, Boscombe. Hot but great.

#reconnect

Given all moving parts these in the Media Eco-systems this motion is worth checking out ... local news day.

https://localnewsday.org/ #News #LocalNews #Reconnect #Communities #LocalNewsDay #Media

https://de320.isrefer.com/go/UNTHINKABLE/Stuartn/
 
#ReachOut #OldFriends #Reconnect #FriendshipMatters #CheckOnYourPeople #YouNeverKnow #MentalHealth #HumanConnection #TextThem #NoMoreDrifting #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Workshop #Meditation

Emma Sage: The Gardener Inspiring A New Generation To Get Growing With Sage Journal https://www.allforgardening.com/1463039/emma-sage-the-gardener-inspiring-a-new-generation-to-get-growing-with-sage-journal/ #Communities #Continues #Emma #Ensure #flourish #garden #gardener #gardening #gardens #Generation #generations #get #growing #inspiring #journal #mission #new #outdoor #Past #reconnect #reframe #Rooms #sage #the #to #wisdom #with

Opinion | Rail trails offer space to reconnect with community – The Washington Post

Opinion

Meet us on the rail trail

A place to gather as Americans, not partisans.The Island Line Trail on the Burlington, Vermont, waterfront, which Howard Dean played a role in creating. (Courtesy From Rails to Trails Film, LLC)

By Tommy Thompson and Howard Dean – Tommy Thompson, a Republican, is a former governor of Wisconsin. Howard Dean, a Democrat, is a former governor of Vermont.

September 28, 2025 at 7:00 a.m. EDT, Yesterday at 7:00 a.m. EDT, 3 min

Life in much of America today seems fractured, offering fewer opportunities for people to meet, mingle and feel part of the same community. But there is at least one exception: local rail trails — quiet, leafy greenways that follow the paths trains once traveled.

Over the past six decades, a citizen-led movement has transformed more than 26,000 miles of abandoned rail corridors into thousands of public paths for walking, biking and recreation. Tens of millions of people use these trails each year — in the countryside, in small towns and in big cities. This successful effort to convert rails to trails has never belonged to just one political party.

We know this because we’ve lived it; rail trails have been important to both our lives. One of us (Thompson) grew up along the nation’s first rail trail: the Elroy-Sparta State Trail in Wisconsin, which ran through his family farm. The other (Dean) helped create the Island Line Trail in Vermont, which swings from Burlington out onto a causeway far into Lake Champlain.

It was Thompson’s father who helped bring the Elroy-Sparta trail to life, setting in motion a project that revived local communities and became a model for the nation. And it was Dean whose leadership helped secure a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that validated the concept of saving rail corridors.

These trails do more than repurpose land. They restore communities. They promote health, tourism and local business. They give Americans a place to meet as neighbors, not partisans.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Opinion | Rail trails offer space to reconnect with community – Washington Post

#2025 #America #Biking #community #Education #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #OpenSpaces #Opinion #PublicPaths #RailTrails #Railroads #Rails #Reconnect #Recreation #Science #TheWashingtonPost #Travel #UnitedStates #Walking

Hi, everybody on the `disabled.social` Mastodon instance. I'm back, if anyone still remembers me. Lol

#Mastodon #DisabledSocial #Community #HelloAgain #SocialMedia #Reconnect #DisabilityAwareness #Inclusion #Support #Friendship #MentalHealth #DisabilityCommunity #OnlineFriends #SocialNetwork #WelcomeBack #TogetherAgain

Simple ways to #reconnect with your #friends
1. Call them
2. Surprise them
3. Have an honest conversation
4. Plan a day out with them
5. Apologise

Things Jesus said and ACTUALLY taught. Matthew 25 is a tough read in today's society. #bible #jesus #reconnect #matthew25

Episode 133, live from Reconnect, the 2025 Eastercon in Belfast, is here! We discuss the fun we’ve had at the convention, and also discuss other forthcoming Eastercons through to 2030. It's possibly more coherent than some other live episodes?

Listen here: https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/133-i-understand-that-alison-has-never-been-pope/

#ScienceFiction #Podcast #Eastercon #Eastercon2025 #Reconnect

Last panel of #Eastercon done, and all three today went well and were full of interesting discussions & revelations. Thanks to all the mods, my fellow panelists, the audience and the wonderful #Reconnect Programme team!

From candlelit dinners to a DIY spa treatment, get ideas on how to transform your kid-free night into an evening of connection and indulgence! Don't wait, read now and plan for your next kid-free night.
#kidfreenight #datenight #winetasting #selfcare #dinnerdate #DIYdates #DIYspa #relaxation #fun #reconnect

http://ittybitty4life.com/2025/03/21/when-the-kids-are-awaymake-the-most-out-of-a-kid-free-evening/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

🏙️ Urban biodiversity: #RECONNECT (#BiodivProtect) shows how civil servants’ actions are shaped by relationships and resource gaps. ‘Serendipity of agency’ calls for tackling context-specific challenges.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104023

Thanks to Laura for this impression 🎄 of the good mood 😊 of the members of our Alumni Stammtisch 🍻 during their joint visit 🎅 to the Christmas market 🎁 in Munich.

If you are also a WiSoAlumni 📚 in and around Munich 🏙️, please send us a message 📩 if you are looking to get in touch 🤝 with people with a Rhineland background 🥨.

#wisoalumni 🎓 #kölnalumni 🏰 #giveback 💚💙 #reunion 🫂 #reconnect 🔗 #regularstable 🍷 #meetngreet 👋 #networking 💼

Mornin’.

‘Raindrops keep falling on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red
Crying's not for me
'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining
Because I'm free
Nothing's worrying me…’

#Realise.
#Recharge.
#Reimagine.
#Resist.
#Reform.
#Reconnect.

#rain #nature
#pond #Election2024

At the bottom of the croft where I live on Lewis, there is a land bridge. You can only really see this bridge at low tide. At high tide, it looks like the land is completely separate from the wee island in the middle of the loch.

The waters - like politics, conflicts and gossip that we're flooded with daily - segregate us. Underneath, we are one, we all live on the same underlying bit of land. If we remain in high tide, we will never #reconnect #Dùthchas

#reconnect #rp24 Beim re:connect habe ich die Antwort "Passiert." wert hat meine Frage? #wasmittomaten

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#BLABBERMOUTH
MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Reconnects With Sister After 20 Years

https://blabbermouth.net/news/megadeths-dave-mustaine-reconnects-with-sister-after-20-years

#DaveMustaine #SiblingsDay #NationalSiblingsDay #Parkinsons #dementia #reconnect #MEGADETH #JehovahsWitness #family #love #spiritfree #abuse #alcoholism #lostsister

#Reconnect