Emily McGill

@em-m.bsky.social

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I facilitate, dream, garden. Cultivate community. Prize regenerative culture. #dwebyvr

A scene of the shore, ocean and islands - the view looking northeast over the Saanich Inlet from the coast of Vancouver Island, near Bakerview, BC. The southern peak of Salt Spring island is visible in the far horizon.
A quote from adrienne maree brown is set against a backdrop of the galaxy, with stars among black sky and some galactic clouds. The quote reads "Art is not neutral. It either upholds or disrupts the status quo, advancing or regressing justice. We are living now inside the imagination of people who thought economic disparity and environmental destruction were acceptable costs for their power. It is our right and responsibility to write ourselves into the future. ALL ORGANIZING IS SCIENCE FICTION." adrienne maree brown is an activist, visionary, and author of several books, including Emergent Strategy, which this quote comes from. Emergent Strategy is (quote from her website) "adrienne maree brown’s first solo book, and it has become a movement bestseller since its release in 2017. It is a guidebook for getting in right relationship with change, using our own nature and that of creatures beyond human as our teachers."
Two copies of the book Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira are face-up, one atop another, resting on a slatted wooden bench scattered with fallen cherry blossoms and petals. The shade cast from the back of the bench leaves the books half in sun, half in shade. Here's a remix of Google's AI summary of the book's focus: The concept of Hospicing Modernity is that modernity, with its emphasis on expansion, colonialism, resource extraction, and consumerism, has created a system that is fundamentally out of balance and harmful to the planet and its inhabitants. The book explores the "5 modern-colonial e's": Entitlements, Exceptionalism, Exaltation, Emancipation, and Enmeshment. Machado emphasizes the importance of recognizing the suffering inherent in the current system, the need to accept impermanence and change, and advocates for a gradual disengagement from the unsustainable patterns of modern life, encouraging readers to re-evaluate their values, behaviors, and belief systems.
Tiers of fungi protrude from the top and sides of an upright log, about 16 inches tall. Behind the log is an empty raised bed, and it sits among decaying mulch and leaves. The fungi is a multitude of shades of foresty brown and green, with hints of burgundy, Grey, and yellow.
Close shot of bebe buds of a metasequoia