An Equinox Offering
Print for the People
PHOTO BY JESS DRAWHORN
As we celebrate the Autumn Equinox, we’re reaching out to share a new offering with you. We hope it can serve you this season.
Since nesting ourselves within the Weaving Earth (WE) ecosystem last year, Loam has been in a beautiful journey of reimagining how we want to situate our work in the world. As the publishing branch of WE, we’re honored to be part of a constellation of creatives who are working at the intersections of ecological, social, and personal systems change. It’s inspiring us to really reflect on what systems we want to transform in our own work—and what systems we want to compost.
As many of you know, Loam took a sabbatical from social media earlier this year to free up space to focus on our in-person and in-print practices. One of the things that emerged during this (ongoing) sabbatical was a deeper desire to build something with our community.
For years, Loam Editor Kailea Loften has been dreaming of trialing a monthly print newsletter, something you get in the mail each month to sustain connection and inspire earth intimacy. So it’s exciting to share that we’re finally putting out a first run!
Inspired by DIY zines, our inaugural print newsletter is a single page 18 x 24 fold out that weaves together an essay from Kailea with reflections and resources to turn to this fall. Autumn is the season of harvest and seed saving, shedding what no longer serves, and dreaming into what might.
This inaugural newsletter is truly an experiment. We are trying to figure out just how this project should live in the world, so everyone who orders our first newsletter will be invited to share their feedback directly with us so that we can shape this missive together.
We are launching this project in the spirit of exploring ecological attention and attunement. It is intended to be a seasonal conversation with our community, and an invitation to pause from social media. As Weaving Earth Executive Director Lauren Hage says in the invocation that opens up this newsletter: may our attention be loving and gentle.
We’re so excited again to share this newsletter with you all! You can snag a copy at the link below, and if you feel inspired, your support in spreading the word would mean so much to us. This is our first time offering a printed work like this, and we hope it can be a way to connect with new readers.
Thank you for being here with us.
In love and solidarity,
Loam