This week, history sure is ringing the echoes hard and loud: tariffs are here, and it’s another stepping stone toward a new depression era.
I often get accused of fear-mongering, but pointing out parallels and using them to be prepared is the calm solution for the chaos that keeps getting louder day by day.
When I was in college, my favorite professor and mentor had a favorite phrase:
Good history is intellectual history.
Because when we truly understand the whole scope — not just the propaganda we’ve been peddled — we are empowered. Empowered to create change. Empowered to be prepared. And empowered to make choices from a place of calm instead of scrambling from fear.
And that’s why we’re talking about Victory Gardens this week — not the glossy poster version, but the truth of how they fed families in hard times, and why they might be worth planting again.
So we can be Rooted & Ready to handle whatever comes our way.
NEW ON THE BLOG:
Reclaiming Your Magic
Everything in the world feels so FUCKING hard right now.
You can feel it in your chest when you wake, in the way your shoulders curl in as you scroll, in the low hum of anxiety that clings to you even in still moments.
We’re living through a time when those who have clung to power are losing their grip — and in their flailing, they’re casting shadows over the collective nervous system of humanity. Every headline, every ping, every jarring soundbite is a little curse meant to keep you reactive, fearful, distracted.
We can’t banish the noise completely.
But we can step out of the trance it’s trying to hold us in.
We can cast our own counterspell.
That’s where #75Soft comes in.
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