Peace worldwide to the medicine keepers. The seeds have a lineage and a story beyond the reefer madness and big money market we have witnessed. The medicine transcends the madness, to the earth and the air blow and decompose and absorb the healing flames and flowers
The legal cannabis industry pushed out farmers with deep connection to the land and the sacred plant. It led to mass production, gentrification, exploited & polluted land and slave labor. The lab grown candy flavored weed of today is not the sacred plant that heals and reveals.
A farmers daughter who knows the seeds, flowers and their extracts like family. I don’t see justice in this industry. Despite equity initiatives, weed is whiter than ever. Happy 420, smoke on that! Don’t forget to bless the hands who planted, tended, &rolled your designer weed.
Now hear me out. The outpouring of love and offers to support for folks being laid off in tech is beautiful. AND
I’ve rarely seen that same energy for folks in less glamorous industries, with less professional or academic accomplishments, who likely have less to land on and
Let’s make encouragement, connection, compassion and community a real part of our social economy and not just about achievement, performative posts, networking and class stratification. Let’s connect on LinkedIn or by email to talk more about building community #compassion
At the same time, as I am expected not to rock boats I am expected to be the lifeboat, the lighthouse, the captain and the muscle. I know I am not alone in this, in philanthropy or elsewhere.
I am not your model minority! And my superpower is, even if I look like I could be, I will rock the boat! Yes, I love my job and excited about the greater field, but sometimes the biggest impact you can make it a field or a role is to think bigger and continue to push
on the border of what's possible. Sometimes you gotta say things that make people uncomfortable, because if you don't say anything, people will continue to say things that make or should make those of us they tokenize uncomfortable -we don't need to be traumatized anymore at work