{Love Note} Gratitude + Courageous Ask: Sustaining The Garden
After the Spin. self portrait | When I am dancing, everything is clear. I see into the depths of possibility, and I feel my body making more and more space for my dreams to be realized.
textual transmission + voice recording + original soundtrack | 13 November 2021
Sweet new day, Beautiful Creators,
This is a gratitude-love note and also me expanding my ask for support in sustaining and growing the Garden.
I am filled with love and gratitude for your presence and participation in the Garden. Your contributions of time, attendance at gatherings, enthusiasm, sacred story shares, prayers, feedback, sharing the Garden with others, development of practices, engagement in our portals, facilitation, archiving labors, food donations, brilliant ideas, and financial contributions are so deeply honored and appreciated. THANK YOU!!
Earlier this year I introduced the Giving Well as a portal for us to practice feeling well while giving from our Yes. This is a radical experiment and one that I am feeling into everyday and with each new season of the Garden. The central question that sparked the Giving Well was this: How can we exercise more intention and autonomy over where we spend our money, our time, our energy? When you honestly assess what people, places, companies and other entities profit from your engagement, do you feel good about where your life energies and precious resources flow?
The Garden is where we are actively reimagining economies, wellness, mothering-centered exchanges, and sustainability methods that visibilize our vital labors as creators. The first iteration of the Giving Well was me welcoming more transparency about my labors as Mother Mother. I invited specific monetary donations, and shared more pieces of the story of what it takes to facilitate our magical world.
As we reach the midpoint of the fall season, I have arrived at a new place in my understanding of what the Garden is, what it costs in time, labor, and resources to facilitate, and what I need to sustain and grow this dream. It is my heart’s desire that those who love this space, feel nourished by this space, and feel called to forward this space will be the ones who lovingly and consciously pour into its continuation.
I invite you to feel into your Yes and join a Sustainability Circle by committing to a minimum recurring offering to the Garden of $25/month or $300/year. Participation in the Sustainability Circles is completely voluntary (as is everything in the Garden), anonymous and independent of membership in our congregation.
You are always welcome to make a donation of any amount to the Garden. I am intentionally requesting that Sustainability Circle offerings be recurring commitments so that I can better anticipate monthly resources and more strategically manage expenses for the Garden and for my family.
My invitation to everyone here is to practice sustaining the spaces that nourish and sustain you. Only you can determine what that means for you and how you choose to give your support. If you do feel the yes in your heart to give financially, please consider joining a Sustainability Circle today. It would be an awesome blessing to me and the family right now!
I also want to celebrate again that there are many ways to contribute to the wellness and expansion of the Garden. I am truly grateful for all expressions of support from creators who pour into this beautifully expanding experiment/dream/life that we are co-creating. THANK YOU!
My joyful thanks to all the creators who are already participating in our Sustainability Circles and who have made donations to the Giving Well over these first 19 months of the Garden! Your generosity and encouragement helped me discover more dimensions of this process and see further into the possibilities if only I could find the courage to ask for what I need and allow myself to be witnessed in my vulnerability. THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME GROW!
I welcome your thoughts, questions, and deepening engagements around sustainability and growth in the Garden. Thank you for being here! Thank you for witnessing my evolutions as Mother Mother!
With love and intergalactic booty rolls,
Binah
