Field Notes
from Family Roots
Practicing the culture we want to live in.
Cultural change isn’t something we have to wait for permission to participate in.
It happens in the ways we care for one another, question inherited expectations, exercise our agency, and tend to the relationships that sustain us.
Twice a month, I’ll share a letter beginning with an observation from my own life and expanding into a question about the culture we’re creating together.
We’ll explore what it means to practice sovereignty, reciprocity, and right relationship in our everyday lives—with ourselves, our families, our work, our communities, and the living world.
Each letter will offer something to consider, question, or experiment with in your own life.
I’m not here to tell you what your truth should be. I’m interested in creating space for us to discover what becomes possible when we begin questioning what we’ve been taught to accept.
Join me in practicing the culture we want to live in.
Observed
A small moment from my life that gives us somewhere to begin.
Under examination
The cultural assumptions, expectations, and arrangements beneath that moment.
The experiment
A different way of relating or participating that we might consider—not a guaranteed solution.
A question to carry
One open question to explore within the circumstances of your own life.
A note from Lindsay
I’m Lindsay Baker—a writer, fiber artist, nurse, coach, and photographer. Family Roots is where these parts of my life meet in an ongoing inquiry into care, sovereignty, reciprocity, and right relationship.
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