17/07/2025
❤️🙏
“There’s a song that wants to sing itself through us. We just got to be available. Maybe the song that is to be sung through us is the most beautiful requiem for an irreplaceable planet or maybe it’s a song of joyous rebirth as we create a new culture that doesn’t destroy its world. But in any case, there’s absolutely no excuse for our making our passionate love for our world dependent on what we think of its degree of health, whether we think it’s going to go on forever. Those are just thoughts anyway. But this moment you’re alive, so you can just dial up the magic of that at any time.”
Joanna Macy
Dear friends in the Work That Reconnects community,
We want you all to know that Joanna Macy, our beloved root teacher, is now on home hospice. She is being lovingly cared for by her children, grandchildren, and a few dear friends.
A couple of weeks ago, Joanna fell at home and broke her hip. After undergoing surgery and spending over a week in the hospital, she returned home to recover. Just two days later, she developed pneumonia - and with her characteristic clarity and courage, expressed her wish to remain at home, surrounded by love. Her care team shifted to hospice, and since then, Joanna has been gently letting go.
In this bittersweet moment, we hold many things at once: deep gratitude for her life, sorrow at her impending departure, and awe at the grace and presence she brings even now. One friend shared today - “Joanna truly loves every drop of life.”
May we join her in that love. Let us use this time to live more vividly, more gratefully - to walk with open hearts, to say what matters, to cherish the sacred ordinary.
With love and gratitude,
The Work That Reconnects Network Weavers
Image: Jess Serrante
