The Roots of Real Change

There is something about putting seeds into the earth that changes a person.

As I plant cucumbers, beans, and lettuce into peat and soil, I feel the deeper layers of what is really being cultivated. It isn’t just food. It isn’t even just land. It is relationship — with place, with responsibility, with myself.

Three words keep circling me lately: sovereignty, stewardship, and serenity.

Sovereignty

For much of my life, I feel like I moved through spaces as a guest — grateful, respectful, observant. But otherwise not belonging. But here something has shifted. In the hills of the Dominican Republic, I walk the same paths each morning, tending the same patches of soil, I no longer feel like I am visiting. I feel rooted.

Sovereignty, to me, is not about control or ownership. It is about inhabiting my life fully. It is about standing in quiet authority over my choices, my energy, and the direction of my work. It is the plant pushing its roots deeper and saying, I belong here.

Stewardship

And yet, sovereignty without care becomes domination. The land teaches this quickly.

To plant is to commit. To water is to remember. To tend to the plants is to participate in cycles that are older than any plan I might write.

Stewardship asks: How will you care for what you claim? Whether it is the garden, Metamorphosis GCA, a website, or a relationship — stewardship is love expressed through consistency.

Serenity

There is a quiet that comes when both are aligned.

When I know I am standing in my own authority and tending what is mine to tend, something inside me softens. The urgency falls away. Growth cannot be rushed. Change comes in stages. Action does not respond to pressure. Serenity is not the absence of movement — it is trust within it.

When I look at the fences along our hills, I notice how the vines have begun to twist themselves around the wire. They do not fight the structure. They do not overtake it in a single day. They simply wind, patiently and persistently, strengthening as they grow.

Sovereignty, stewardship, and serenity feel like that.

On their own, each is powerful. But together, they weave protection. Sovereignty gives us our inner boundary — the knowing of who we are and what we stand for and the respect of self that holds us up. Stewardship teaches us how to tend what grows within and around us - with respect and love for all. Serenity softens the edges, allowing us to move through our days with steadiness rather than strain.

Twisted together, they create something living and resilient. Not a wall that isolates us — but a woven boundary that protects what matters. Within that protection, meaning flourishes. Community deepens. Creativity expands. We are free to grow without losing ourselves. This is the heart of Metamorphosis GCA.

We seek to make radical positive change in the world. As a collective of healers, artists, and educators, we acknowledge that external peace depends on internal peace. We believe that with each connection, with each event, there is a healing energy that reaches outward and creates change far beyond what we can see.

If this resonates with you, I invite you to explore the website. Wander through the projects. Share your gifts, your art, your music. Join the conversations in our community section. Step into the weave with us. Together, we will cultivate a life of meaning — rooted, protected, and expansive.