Recently, a friend in the food world shared two great bits of information that he believed should have been good news to me. First, Raleigh chef Ashley Christensen won the James Beard Foundation Award for the country’s Outstanding Chef at a ceremony held in Chicago at Lyric Opera. The second set of news was that…
Stories: Essays
Our essays tell the unique perspective of writers from our community who have ideas to share and Stories Stories to tell.
Investing Locally and Building Community Wealth – A blog by Gabe Treves-Kagan
We are intentional about what we eat and where it comes from. We are thoughtful about where we shop and mindful of the labor that goes into what we consume. But what about where we bank and how our money is being put to work? We shop and eat local, but how many of us…
LOVE of Mother Earth – a blog by Godi Godar
I am blessed to have grown up in the heart of the Congo Basin Rainforest my whole childhood, nurtured by Mama Earth. The Rainforest is our mother. She provides us with all that we need: climate, shelter, medicine, water, food, the air we breathe and so much more. The resilience of her lungs are vital for…
Grief. Just Another Word for Love.
Grief. I think Ive carried it around with me my whole life. But most recently, I was plunged into feelings of despair, depression, sadness, anxiety and fear over the course of my husband’s illness – and as he died by the relentless disease ALS. When he was in his dying time, which lasted one…
The Ride of Your Life – A Blog by Liz Anderson Simmons
Do you remember the first time you rode your bicycle without training wheels? After many hours of practice and countless falls, standing up and trying once again—can you remember that exhilarating and frightening surge of freedom? Finally your neurons made the requisite connections and your muscles acquired enough strength to master the simultaneous skills…
Love, Society and Planets – A blog by Pepe Caudillo
I would LOVE to start by expressing my gratitude to Abundance NC for the many things they do, like inviting me, and you, to think about an important element in our lives that, little by little, is becoming less obvious, less touched, less spoken, less cultivated or practiced: LOVE. When I see, read, hear…
An Ode to Jim and Michael – a blog by Katherine Savage
AN ODE TO JIM AND MICHAEL On the morning Hurricane Michael arrived in the South Toe Valley, I opened my email to find a request from a neighbor for help with the body of their loved one who had died the previous day. Could I teach them how to tend him in their home…
Eclipse Community
Eclipse Community About ten million of us headed to the “Arc of Totality” last Monday to see the solar eclipse. Tami and I went to Nashville to meet my brother Glen and Bill Klein who had traveled from Canada for the event. We booked into a crummy Best Western by Opryland—surrounded by a sea of…
You Are Not Alone
I want you to know it when you wake in the night and can’t sleep, when you wander the halls like a fevered stranger looking for the place you called home. This is not normal. It is not normal to watch the world we know and love slip away bit by bit. You are…
