Here we are, now. . .
The trees around us turn from green to crimson red, burning orange to sunset yellow. The skies are a pensive grey, with rain, perhaps even snow, pattering onto the transforming grass.
The chilling wind whispers, It’s time.
It’s time to pick the last of the harvest. Time to place wood in fireplaces, turn on the heat, gather blankets and rest in cozy spaces.
It’s time for the fallow season.
Time to put asunder the busyness that is required of us. Time to set aside the abundance, the bright, the loud, the hard.
Our team, too, is feeling the shift of change, and we need space to slow down, discern, recast vision, and regather. As such, The Fallow House, will be taking a short break from our social media this season. We're not going anywhere . . . still here. Just taking time to slow down, seek, and shift as the season calls.
This is why we are who and what we are: The Fallow House.
We acknowledge that fallow seasons exist and are normal—both in the natural world and in our own. There is beauty, there is bounty . . . and, at times, there is broken ground and bare bones.
But falling fallow doesn’t mean we have to set aside creativity or community. We can still make room for one another in the quiet and still moments, even as our work and art slow or even stop for a season.
And the world shows us this, always. Even now, we are learning from the naked trees how silence and bareness can gently and beautifully exist. Because, we’ve seen again and again, that when life—literally and metaphorically—is ready, it always returns in full bloom.
Friends of The Fallow House, tell us—do you sense the call to embrace fallowness in this season too? Share some thoughts in the comments — we'd love to chat back with you and hear how you're doing.
Rest well, friends.
Jazmine Lampley
Editor
Psst! By the way . . .
In March 2024, The Fallow House will be teaming up with Stephen Roach of the Makers & Mystics podcast for The Breath and The Clay, an in-person annual creative arts gathering. This year’s gathering will be centered around the following theme:
What do we make of the world we have been given? How do we bring order from chaos, beauty from ashes and flourishing from what is formless and void?
Echoing the words first spoken by the Great Artist in the Genesis narrative, we, too, have been invited to bring forth, to give birth, to call life into being.
So, from March 22 to March 24, our team will be gathered in Winston-Salem, NC—and we’d like to officially invite you to join us! We’re eager to be a part of TBTC 2024, and we’re also planning out our own Fallow fun : )
Let us know if you're curious about/committed to coming. We’d love to consider you as we make plans for in-person hangouts that weekend.
Learn more and get your tickets at The Breath and The Clay.
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Our founder, Rachel Marie Kang, will soon be announcing details around the release of her new book! Sign up for her newsletter and be the first to hear updates and exclusive offers from Rachel. And, trust us—you don’t want to miss this!
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Love this! Thank you for putting into words the way I’m feeling. And I am looking forward to attending the the conference in person!