Can everyone else hear?

yes

yes!

sounding great and looking excellent. Thanks for the tech work, Sarah!

Ok must be my audio thanks

I feel like that’s one of my big questions rn haha — which lands do I feel connected to/want to keep growing in connection with

yes

link to the sefaria sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/296620?lang=bi

https://shmitaproject.org/

I see the value AND this level of slowness and reflection and observation is so difficult to be patient enough for

^^ agreed ella

Name, where you are, the land you’re exploring your relationship to today

ophir haberer, grass valley, ca unneeded nisenan land

unceded*****

ella, southern new jersey/lenape land is both where i am today and the land i’m thinking about

Nina, easthampton, ma (pocumtuck), relating to my hometown Easton, ct (unsure) where I have barely been this shmita cycle

Alexandra Lyon, living on unceded Musqueam territory (so-called Vancouver Canada), in relationship with many places but thinking specifically today about the Fraser River watershed in which I live

Simone or Aderet, Munsee Lenape and Wappinger land also known as the bronx and the same thing for what I’m connecting too

Lexi - I’m on several acres of sandy soil covered by a stand of 50+ year old oaks, on the south shores of lake michigan.

Sarah, Massachusetts land, in Boston, and hoping to build relationship with this land that I’m new to

My name is Gwyneth Krepcio (she/they) currently on Cherokee Lands also know as Asheville NC. Thinking of the slavic lands of my ancestors, the lands they moved to when immigrating to this country, and now the land I’m finding myself on here and now,

Faryn, Boston/pawtucket land, and I am thinking about my relationship to land in Vermont/Abenaki land where I grew up and where I’m thinking of returning in the next few years

Julia, Madison, wi/winnebago land, interested in reflecting on the land I’m on.

Hi im Sarah joining from the lands of the Nanticoke, Piscataway, Pamunkey, Nentego (Nanticoke), Mattaponi, Chickahominy, Monacan, Powhatan, Rappahannock and the Nacotchtank (Anacostans). I want to think about my relationship with the east coast of turtle island where ive spent my whole life up and down (minus 1 year). (if that’s not too big of area?)

Efrayim/ Phil, Atharhacton (Kingston,NY). Muhecanituck / river areas north, east & south. much more..

www.sefaria.org/sheets/296620

gAbRIEL currently living on Nisqually/Squaxin/Coast Salish land in the Pacific Northwest, reflecting on my homeland, a farm on unseded Nanticoke land, Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, so-called Maryland.

Noam, Im currently on Nipmuck and Pocumtuck land in Northampton, MA. Id love to dive into my connection to the E. Coast of Turtle Island, specifically the area where I am living

Journaling Time #1:Reflect on your relationship to the land you chose. Do you live on it? Do you eat food that comes from that place? Do you dream of it? Do you tend to it? How?What else can you say about your relationship to it?Is this land yours? Have you been told it was or was not? How does that currently affect how you connect to it? What comes up for you when you ask this question?If you prefer to free-write on your relationship to this land, do it!

Can everyone hear the music?

yep

for those who have just joined, we are reflecting and journaling. I will post the journaling questions again

Thank you!

Journaling Time #1:Reflect on your relationship to the land you chose. Do you live on it? Do you eat food that comes from that place? Do you dream of it? Do you tend to it? How?What else can you say about your relationship to it?Is this land yours? Have you been told it was or was not? How does that currently affect how you connect to it? What comes up for you when you ask this question?If you prefer to free-write on your relationship to this land, do it!

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I’m loving this journaling soundtrack!

We’re almost done with our time— finish up those sentences :)

What was that exercise like for you?

What would you like to share with your partner?

sorry y’all - that was just for gabriel :)

Dissociated from where my ancestors have been

could you repeat the question? still getting oriented to bigger group space

grieving lost stories of ancestors

in a time of great depletion seeking abundance with & for each other

on the idea of returning “home” to the land : https://www.tikkun.org/blog/2020/06/25/the-third-promise/

In 7 years, what would you like to see be true about your relationship to this land? Will you live on it? Will you eat food that comes from that place? Will you dream of it? Will you tend to it? How?How will you be in relationship to others who dwell on the land?What are some concrete steps you can take to move towards the kind of relationship you would like to have with the land?If you prefer to free-write on your relationship to this land, do it!

beautiful!

thank you Arielle!! even if not a lot was shared with the group I know I’m having lots of thoughts and feeling come up. Thank you for making this space for us.

Thank you!