Meditation on Solving Big Problems

We have been told that big problems require big solutions. That if it doesn’t move the market, or shift national policy, it isn’t real change. 

The scale of the problem seduces us into believing the solution must look the same.

But we remember:

The seed does not ask to scale. It asks to root.

The meal shared by neighbors does not trend, but it softens grief faster than any algorithm.

The hand on the shoulder of a child nourished with ancestral food carries more revolution than a thousand pages of legislation.

Scale is not the measure of care. Speed is not the measure of impact. Legibility is not the measure of wisdom.

We have been told that systems can be fixed from the top. But the sickness is not just in the policy. It’s in the pattern.

The pattern of domination, of disembodied knowing, of separating what belongs together, and of efficiency over embodiment.

So if we respond only with large-scale technical solutions, we risk reinforcing those same patterns—just dressed in green or “progressive” language.

We are here to grow a different shape entirely: Rooted. Rhythmic. Reciprocal. Relational.

We are not small. We are specific. We are not slow. We are seasonal. We are not separate. We are entangled in Earth’s metabolism.

So let the policy come— if it can humble itself to the soil. Let the platforms amplify— if they echo what communities already sing.

But do not wait. Do not shrink. Do not erase the magic of what you are already growing: meals as medicine, circles as governance, stories as resistance, and tenderness as a form of power.

We don’t need to scale to win. We need to remember how to belong.

Let this be our vow:

To move at the speed of trust. To grow what we can steward. To compost what no longer feeds life. To live regeneration, not just legislate it.

Scale is not the measure of care. Care is the measure of life.