Earthborn Magazine
An Origin Story
I am born on Earth
You are born on Earth.
Here we are.
Each epoch comes with its own challenges. Ours is defined by everything moving fast. Too fast for our nervous systems to keep up. So fast, systems are exhausting themselves and are held together at the seams. Worse yet, we need a hot minute to pause and reimagine what is possible when we accept we must become comfortable being uncomfortable in order to make the changes asked of our time.
For better or for worse, we inherited the systems currently in place. The question is, what do you want to do about it?
Will you accept them as they are?
Will you see the gaps?
Will you have the courage to stand up for what needs to be done?
When I look back on my life, I want to know I gave my energy to becoming the living ancestor that looks out for the next generations. That I paved the way for our collective descendants to inherit a world better than the one I entered.
Yet when I think of the work that lies ahead, it feels impossible to do anything of significance. I consider how we could change our structure to earn money, and how the current systems extract the most productivity to generate the most profit for the few at the top.
I think of our food supply chain, and my heart aches at how far we’ve veered from eating real food. What a shame we used technology with the goal of once again extracting maximum profits at the expense of the health of people.
I think of Mother Earth and how we have forgotten that she is one big ecosystem we exploit for the benefit of profits instead of developing a relational strategy to care for all her ecosystems and not just the bottom line.
I see how the school system is designed to raise people who can follow orders in jobs that create maximum profits for the few at the top, not people who know themselves. Whose else’s blood boils when you hear news of “record profits” yet employees struggle to make ends meet?
When I go back to the question, “Will you have the courage to stand up for what needs to be done?” I often think it’s not so much about courage, but more about overcoming despair at not knowing where to even start.
Like all quests, often when we seek too hard, there is a sense the answers are right there behind the fog of our minds, yet painfully out of reach.
And so Earthborn came as an idea like a lightning bolt, but only when I stopped asking and started listening.
Collectively, we are at a decision point. But a confused mind will always say no. At least until the pain of staying the same exceeds the pain of changing.
Earthborn’s purpose makes this decision easier. To remind us that there are already incredible people doing the soul work that needs to be done. It is a collection of writing that gives us hope, direction, and a sense of purpose, knowing that even the smallest action done with the intent of creating a better earth matters and ripples beyond us.
I know I will not see the gorgeous future that is possible for us in this lifetime. I came to peace with that. What made me restless was that I confused peace with inaction.
I do not have all the answers. In the grand scheme of things, I don’t have any at all. What I know to be true is that the systems we deeply crave will not be created by one alone. They are to be created by all of us.
That is the main reason Earthborn exists. To allow for the pause needed to have the conversation about possible ways forward that are regenerative and reciprocal.
I welcome you to Earthborn. Come in and stay a while.
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Next issue is Spring/Summer 2026.
xo,
