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Please enjoy thegravitywell.net giveback calendar! Each day in December we offer you a way to enjoy the holiday season and feel rewarded without breaking your bank. Today begins with reviewing your holiday gift list for ways to use what is already available. Consider the items in your home you are ready to part with that your friend or family member adores. Then, check out the numerous thrift or consignment stores in your community. Our very own, Alexander MacGillivray, took this beautiful photo as a re-gift for you to create your very own holiday cards! #HappyHolidays #giveback #adventcalendar

Day 2️⃣2️⃣: I am grateful for my bioregional regeneration family, Colin Smith’s winter solstice potluck was a wonderful success. 👏💪 When the fog of disinformation is thicker than blood, I am grateful for “pleasure activism”. —An adrienne maree brown term; the author of Emergent Strategy. Thank you, Francis, for teaching me about pleasure activism, indeed! Returning to a shared meaning is a feeling that is experienced, exponentially. #happyholidays

For Day 21 we celebrate our collaborators, here are some ways to get involved in shaping positive change for Alberta: Hold My Hand Alberta is a parent-led grassroots organization for parents of children with disabilities. https://lnkd.in/gJ5CBdkW Join your local watershed council, mine is the Bow River Basin Council: https://lnkd.in/g2_THe_8. For Our Kids Alberta is a part of a national program for parents for climate education and action. https://lnkd.in/gwb8VfBc Stand up against gravel operations upstream of Calgary, join the Bighill Springs Preservation Society info@bighillcreek.ca Become the leader you know you can be, join Angie Alexander, P.Eng's Sage Leadership team, right here on LinkedIn. Are you concerned about Alberta's oil and gas liabilities and companies upholding the law? Reach out to me to join the Polluter Pay Federation! Want to know more about environmental history and how it may shape evidence-informed decision-making? Follow the Network in Canadian History and Environment - NiCHE Want to protect Alberta's water and shape land restoration in your bioregion? Join the Land Lovers Network here: landlovers@bowbioregion.ca Do you have a "green career" support the Alberta Council for Environmental Education https://lnkd.in/gXzYQVt4

Day 20: The Season Finale of The Gravity Well podcast was a wonderful success. Thank you for everyone's contributions to the show and thank you for joining us: Beau Shaw, Muriel Wynnobel, Dr. Gabrielle Weasel Head, Janet Pennington, Alexander MacGillivray, Tom Prilesky from Innerouter (and the Polluter Pay Federation), Colin Smith, K. J. McCusker, and Lyse Carrigan for joining us! Thanks to Jim Campbell, Melanie Hoffman, and bill carroll for your additions. Here's TGW "The Music That Moves Us" Playlist https://lnkd.in/gW9NqN3R

Day 1️⃣9️⃣ Join us TODAY at 4 pm MST. Our community is participating in the Season Finale of thegravitywell.net on "The Music That Moves Us." Thanks to the folks who have offered songs already: Jim Campbell offered James Taylor's "You've Got a Friend" https://lnkd.in/dXaVCFvX and Professor bill carroll offered his original song, "After the Storm" 😊 thank you, Bill! https://lnkd.in/dZhVyM3e We have a couple, or more, original songs to be shared today. See you soon! https://lnkd.in/dRuFhcnj

Day 1️⃣8️⃣: What is your rally song? Music 🎹 can inspire us. I have often had a “theme song” a go-to song when I am feeling stuck or stalled. “Break My Stride” by Matthew Wilder is a song 🎧 that works for me. But what songs rally us and why? These are the songs that create change. 🎧 We are the Champions by Queen 🎸 Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley 🥁 Imagine by John Lennon 🎺 Capital G by Nine Inch Nails The Guess Who was introduced to me by my oldest sister, a Canadian band that was instrumental to the social justice movement in the 1960s and 70s. Tune in tomorrow at 4 pm MST to hear why “Do You Miss Me Darlin” is my song of choice: https://lnkd.in/gW9NqN3R

Grateful to be part of this discussion 🙏🏽

Day 1️⃣7️⃣: What is your favorite game? Puzzles are our my youngest and my favorite activity. And Catan if we are all interested in playing as a game as a family. #simplelife

An incredible conversation with K. J. McCusker, Lizabeth Fox, Dr. Gabrielle Weasel Head, and Tara RC on colonization, the process of decolonization, and "heart"-work! K.J., "I hear the concept of love brought up a great deal, and it's one that I don't think a lot of people are truly listening to." "How does the rest of the population gain insight from that? Well, I'm not quite sure the ready because just like you were pointing out earlier about this, the reality is that we as a culture, as peoples, our peoples have been trying to educate about our worldview since contact, and it's not registering, it's just not, that's a lot of years to be going to school for people who've been here that long, who have ancestors that arrived here in those early days and are still here, they've had an education from us and still not taking any cues." Liz: "There are a lot of things that we as gainai have lost over time, and that's where colonization just never stops." "I think a lot of that needs to be taken apart and put back together so that they understand that our future generations do rely on them just like it relies on us. And there's something that ties in says a lot that I've kind of adopted too is, well, if I don't do it, then who's going to, if not me, then who? If I don't, who's going to? That's what I'm doing." @gabrielleweaselhead73 "Clarity involves sense-making and meaning making...does it make sense if I flip it and all of a sudden, Liz, Tara, kj, we get together and we develop our white awareness training and we give that to indigenous people. It's absurd. It's absolutely absurd. Why do we accept it when, and we say, oh, okay, professional... indigenous awareness training." "We get into questions about how are we going to manage the land, and it doesn't even make any sense to me. It's still okay, I'm going to go to Liz, and so how am I going to manage Liz? The land is living, it's alive. Why do we need to manage it?" Tara: "My "heart"-work is showing up every day and just being brave enough to live in this world to continue on and still trying to live in love." "The way that we make sure tomorrow is healed is that we heal today. We don't have time. We're running out of time." #abpoli #blackfoot #blackfeet #OneNation #sensemaking #meaningmaking #decolonization #colonization

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