We are Woven with Each Other

All beings are kin.

Our biodiversity is a web of interbeing.

The first thing a child does when they are born is draw in a breath of air. This life-giving substance that the child breathes is a cocreation between all the plants and animals of Earth. Therefore, all plants are kin to the child who draws in a breath. The plants of Earth are nourished by Birds generously moving nitrogen from Ocean to Land. Therefore, birds are kin to the child who draws in a breath. Birds are nourished by the bugs. Little Ladybugs become food for crows, swallows, dragonflies. Therefore Ladybugs are kin the child who draws in a breath.

Water, Birds, bumblebees, soil, air quality, Cedar, ferns, Wolves, Salmon, children, adults, elders, Northerners, Southerners… we are all interwoven with one another. There is no ‘outsider’ within Earth’s ecology. All beings are nestled within the whole, inherently belonging, inherently kin. All beings impacting one another through our movements in the fabric that is Life of Earth.

As humans pollute the waterways, the earth, the air, all beings suffer. When we modulate our own reactivity and slow down, offer curiosity and warmth, others around us also slow down - we harmonize through our nervous systems with one another. Our personal nervous systems are part of the collective web. Our shared contexts impact and influence our personal lives. Systemic, Structural harms bear upon our own wellbeing. One person’s unearned advantages come at the expense of others. The kindness we offer to strangers ripples through in unexpected ways.

We can learn to practice more skillfully, more lovingly, as a collective. Relational Ecology is a way of considering our interwoven-ness as a challenging and nourishing guide for movements with one another. When we are all entangled with one another who is the enemy?

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