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When communities lose connection after environmental victories

Our neighborhood used to come together to protect the old oak tree when the city wanted to cut it down, but after we won, we stopped gathering there and I wonder if we only knew how to fight for the land but not how to actually be in relationship with it together.

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The shared purpose that united you around protecting land has dissolved, leaving uncertainty about ongoing collective relationship.

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“Where Are You with Land as sacred?”

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