The Loving Earth Project is an international community textile project, started by a few British Quakers in 2019. They are collecting fabric art panels to use in a traveling exhibit, which will go to Glasgow for the Climate Summit this fall. But the real goal is to encourage us to each explore our connection to some place on the earth, and what action we can take to show our love for it. You can find a short video introducing the project here . The Loving Earth Website is here . My panel is called Crossroads. I wrote a short essay to go with it: Crossroads: In the Willamette Valley of Oregon, we are at the beginning of a great drought, which is affecting our drinking water and our hydro-electricity. We are experiencing devastating wildfires and extreme air pollution from the smoke. Robin Kimmerer says in Braiding Sweetgrass that "..all the people of the earth will see that the path ahead is divided. They must make a choice in their path to the future. One of the roads is soft
My crafting makes my activism sustainable; it allows me to slow down, think deeply about issues, and share my passion creatively.