Author Archives: Louise Gorenflo

Read about the different perspectives on how we might relate to food.  Access Chapter Two here.

We all have eating food in common. Food keeps us alive, growing, becoming. It brings pleasure, relationships, creativity, celebrations, sharing, remembering loved ones, and connecting with the sacred. Yet, we take food so for granted that we do not remember … Continue reading →

Commoning Food Sovereignty Workbook Overview Viewing food as a commons rather than a commodity allows us to address the inabilities of the current food regime to provide food for those who cannot afford the market price point. A commons defines … Continue reading →

Before acting in the world, we need to move away from behaving like privileged white educated western people. Blacks have made a great effort to explain all the ways we discriminate against them, even if we should view ourselves as … Continue reading →

Bessie the cow here, your Earth Interbeing messenger. Well, actually, you already live within the Earth Interbeing. We have never separated from you, and you haven’t ever separated from us except in your mind. How could you be apart from … Continue reading →

The I Ching teaches us what is important in life. It gives us insights into the fundamental issues of our lives and instructs us on how we can nourish the virtues necessary to connect with the spirit and to manifest … Continue reading →

by louise When I considered writing for Meat, Complicity, and Thou, I nearly rejected the idea because I feared how others would react to me proposing the spiritual path as the means to overcome the Imperium. I saw you rolling … Continue reading →

We have a different creation story than Westerners. You have two stories. In the first one, God created the Earth and gave his chosen male people dominion over women, all other life, and Earth. In your second story, creation happened … Continue reading →

The I Ching teaches us what is important in life. It gives us insights into the fundamental issues of our lives and instructs us on how we can nourish the virtues necessary to connect with the spirit and to manifest … Continue reading →

by louise [Note: In this essay, the words we, us, and our refer to white Americans (U.S. residents) who benefit from colonial privileges derived from the enslavement of Africans, the theft of land from Native peoples, and their ongoing discrimination. … Continue reading →