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How We Come Back: Field Notes on Returning to What Matters

How We Come Back is a newsletter that explores what it means to live in rhythm with the seasons, reclaim ritual and community, and use what we have (our time, our land, our resources) to help build something more regenerative

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Inside the Threshold, Hating It

On labor, the newborn trenches, and what to do when you can't surrender yet

You Don't Just Move to the Country. You Surrender to it.

On the gap between arriving and being known

We Grew up in the Unraveling

Perhaps we missed some good times, but we were made for these ones.

You cannot build reciprocal community while running a one-woman show

On overfunctioning, child consciousness, and why the truth is the most connecting thing you can do

I don’t want to disappear. I want to choose where I am seen.

a question I asked at a 40th birthday party and the communal answer that reframed the portal

I read the news, then I cooked dinner

on consciously refusing to withdraw from this cultural moment

When Everything Slows

Living and farming through the deep freeze of winter

Circles are how we stay human

Why gathering women has always been part of resisting what dehumanizes us

What happens after the circle ends

Why closing, integration, and aftermath matter more than we think

Power exists in circles whether we name it or not

& why pretending otherwise causes harm

What we owe the people we gather

On community, responsibility, and doing women’s work without performance

What If No One Comes?

and why you don't have to invite everyone you know to your gathering

Year Two of Land Stewarding: What We Actually Did

An honest record of building a regenerative farm

Community building is not convenient

and that is the very reason it works

When hosting feels hard

a farm story + why creating community hurts sometimes, yet always matters.

The winter I finally stopped waiting

a little story about building community in a new place

Harbingers 🐞

When ancient instincts meet a changing world

What it means to be ready now

How you can prepare for collapse (without becoming a prepper)

Loving a Man in a Patriarchal World

(Even When I’m Mad at Him)

To Save a Seed

Remembering that life wants to live