Founder’s note
March always feels like a threshold.
The year has started, but it hasn’t fully opened yet. The air is still cold some days. The light is starting to stretch. You can feel something shifting, even if you can’t see it fully formed.
Last month we celebrated Black History Month. I’m grateful for that pause. For the intentional reflection. For the reminder that we come from brilliance.
But reflection alone is not the point.
How do we carry the torch of February forward into the rest of the year?
How do we study the past not as nostalgia, but as a roadmap?
For us, it has looked like practice.
During our Biomimicry as Resistance circles last month, we held space for conversations about what we can learn from the natural world. Not just survival, but adaptation. Cooperation. Regeneration. We asked what it means to resist in ways that are life-giving instead of extractive.
Through Elders in the Chat, we held space for the present. For intergenerational learning. For stories that don’t live in textbooks but live in memory, in hands, in lived experience. We watched knowledge move across generations in real time.
That is how the torch moves forward.
Not through a single month of recognition, but through gathering. Through creativity. Through honoring the genius that already lives in our community.
Lately, with the doors able to stay open and the breeze moving through the space, with the sun lingering a little longer in the evenings, something feels lighter. Not because the work is done. But because we are choosing to be present inside of it.
Healing has been happening here. Sometimes small. Sometimes quiet. Always intentional.
March gives us fresh eyes. A chance to breathe again. To look at what we’ve inherited and ask how we carry it forward with care.
If February reminds us of who we come from, March asks who we are becoming.
And here at We Outside, we are choosing to become a community that studies the past, gathers in the present, and builds toward a future rooted in joy, creativity, and collective wisdom.
