Different People
With different outlooks
And different goals
Are coming together to
Share Our Love of the Aquifer!
2017 Gainesville Earth Exchange
June 24, 2017 9am - 11am
Alachua Sink, La Chua Trail
4801 Camp Ranch Road, Gainesville, FL 32641
When the places we love are threatened or damaged, we respond in different ways. Some work tirelessly to protect them. Some are so devastated they avoid the place as much as they can. Some educate. Some litigate. Some make art. Some write letters.
The Global Earth Exchange is a day when people around the world who care about a certain place come together there to share their experiences, get to know the place as it is now, and make a gift of beauty for the place.
We invite you to join us on Saturday, June 17, to honor a special place in our own town. Together we will:
Details on what to bring and more of what to expect will be emailed to those who RSVP. Otherwise, we'll see you at Alachua Sink!
This ceremony is hosted with Radical Joy for Hard Times, an organization dedicated to bringing meaning and beauty to places on earth that have been damaged. Once a year, a global network of people come together to celebrate the beauty of wounded landscapes. This is the second year that Gainesville, Florida is participating!
The Global Earth Exchange is a day when people around the world who care about a certain place come together there to share their experiences, get to know the place as it is now, and make a gift of beauty for the place.
We invite you to join us on Saturday, June 17, to honor a special place in our own town. Together we will:
- Share our love for the aquifer
- Acknowledge our sorrow about what has happened to it
- Feel the inspiration of people all over the world who are observing this day in a wide variety of hurt places
- Strengthen the bonds of our community
- Support one another to continue our individual work
Details on what to bring and more of what to expect will be emailed to those who RSVP. Otherwise, we'll see you at Alachua Sink!
This ceremony is hosted with Radical Joy for Hard Times, an organization dedicated to bringing meaning and beauty to places on earth that have been damaged. Once a year, a global network of people come together to celebrate the beauty of wounded landscapes. This is the second year that Gainesville, Florida is participating!
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"Creating a sustainable, thriving future on Earth depends upon opening our hearts to the natural world in its brokenness as well as its splendor. Just as we cannot heal our personal wounds until we face them honestly and compassionately, so we must face the broken, ugly, “wounded” places we live among in order that we can find beauty there, thank the places for all they have given, and so heal our relationship with them."
-Trebbe Johnson, Founder of Radical Joy for Hard Times
-Trebbe Johnson, Founder of Radical Joy for Hard Times
