Jody

“In a gift economy, wealth is understood as having enough to share, and the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away. In fact, status is determined not by how much one accumulates, but by how much one gives away. The currency in a gift economy is relationship, which is expressed as gratitude, as interdependence and the ongoing cycles of reciprocity. A gift economy nurtures the community bonds that enhance mutual well-being; the economic unit is “we” rather than “I,” as all flourishing is mutual.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“Art expresses beauty and truth," Georgia said. "It's a gift. It's meant to be experienced and interacted with not used. That's what's so gross about what the Distortionists do. They use art instead of making it or even enjoying it. They turn art into propaganda.”
― Carolyn Leiloglou, Beneath the Swirling Sky

“Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest on reciprocity.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The crisis of the modern world is not a crisis of technology or politics or greenhouse gases. It is a spiritual war. What the Machine represents is our ultimate rebellion against nature: against reality itself. We have seen this rebellion before. Now our culture’s rejection of its spiritual core has opened us up to powers and principalities that we have no idea how to manage”
― Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity