Daily Compass

Ever wonder why honeybees are not called furry bees? After all, they are covered with tiny little hairs that make them quite furry looking. Turns out those tiny little hairs are very important in helping bees and flowers to live together in mutual interdependence.  The pollen a flower creates gets caught in the hairs of the honey bee and is more easily transported from flower to flower. As the bee feeds on the nectar of the plants, the plants get pollinated and are able to grow new plants.
-Lori Stone (CLF)

How are we humans able to cultivate symbiotic relationships with one another that are mutually beneficial?

“We are all capable

In different ways
With various strengths and talents.

We are all holy
Part of the universe
And the interdependent web.”
-Cindy Fesgen

What strengths and talents do you bring to the universe today?

I first understood interdependence in elementary school when I learned about the water cycle that happens on our planet. I felt so awestruck thinking that the water I was drinking was once rain in India that flowed to the sea. When we are in our silos, nations,  and families, it can be so hard to see the forest from the trees. I try to remind myself when I am going through the sorrows and joys of life, that in the midst of the social suffering we create for ourselves, all of us are on a rock moving through space together. How wild is that?
-Lecretia Williams (CLF)

What are the joys and sorrows you need others to accompany you with today?

“In order to survive the apocalypse–
any apocalypse at all–
we have to give up
the counterfeit currency of self-
sufficiency”
-Sean Parker Dennison, from “How to Survive the Apocalypse,” in Breaking and Blessing

How can you practice giving up the harmful myth of self-sufficiency?

We all share one planet. While we are all individuals, communities are made up of individuals.  Nations are made up of communities.  We  all need to be working together toward the good of all on the planet, including the humans and the animals and the plants.
-Judy DiCristofaro (CLF)

How can you live from your connection to our whole planet today?