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Emily McGill
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I facilitate, dream, garden. Cultivate community. Prize regenerative culture.
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Wowww it has been so fun pre-camping with some of the team this weekend! This announcement post for #dwebcampcascadia was made in front of an epic view of Saanich Inlet with Salt Spring on the horizon. Blessed to be working with these people, in this place 💞
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.
June 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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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."
April 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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My spare copies of #hospicingmodernity have arrived! I'm starting a reading group to work through it together.

This book is an invitation to different ways of thinking, feeling, and ultimately being, in the face of the decline of how-things-have-been.
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.
April 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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A magnificent upgrade to the fungal canopy on this nurse log at the #cofoodyvr garden

Anyone up to ID it? 🤔 my PictureThis app doesn't do fungi

#fungifriends #gardenersofthegalaxy
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.
March 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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'Tis the season for budwatching in Vancouver!

Our garden has been waking up since early Feb, but it's just this week that the green dots along our bush and tree stalks and branches are really standing out

#cofoodyvr
Close shot of bebe buds of a metasequoia A close shot of the fuzzy buds on the tip of a stalk of a Saskatoon berry plant The just-opening baby leaves on the tip of a raspberry stalk Itty bitty raspberry leaves just beginning to open
March 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Wonder if this will hit for you like it did for me, hope so.
February 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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If you see this, quote post with a photo of a beach from your gallery.

I like reflecting on how distant lands are connected through water.
February 13, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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🥳 And we're off! #lofiwkndyvr

Really looking forward to these local-first talks and hack time

Nice work putting it on 💪 @daffl.me @bmann.ca @chadkoh.com @jonny.z-space.ca
January 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Ooooooohhhh. Earth spelling my name. Glaciers, rivers, fjords, lakes, mountain ranges. 🤩🏞
August 31, 2024 at 10:19 PM