Benjamin Ramm
@BenjaminRamm
Founder of Honeydew, a global network of eco-communities creating our sustainable future. We're in 🇮🇹 & 🇧🇷. Follow on Instagram: HoneydewCommunity
The evening meal is the ritual heart of life at Honeydew. Yesterday, after a torrid week in this region, we ate dinner outside for the first time, overlooking the majestic peak of Maioletto. The colours that you see here are unfiltered—bliss really does look like this. #community
a lie we tell ourselves is that we need to be ready before we begin. we wait for courage before acting brave. wait for clarity before making decisions. wait for perfect conditions before living fully. this is backwards. courage comes from acting, clarity comes from starting, joy…
roots never see the sun, but they hold the whole forest on their backs. veins of the earth, breaking rock, drinking rain, tearing through darkness to feed what reaches for light. they starve so branches can stretch. they rot so leaves can breathe. unseen. unthanked. unstoppable.
A quick minute on Covid, collective resilience, and the creation of Honeydew
C. S. Lewis on friendship, magical read it slowly
Sabotaging Ukraine’s efforts to defend itself *with its own weapons* by switching off signals intelligence is so incredibly depraved it beggars belief. If political partisanship means you can’t see that—there is something wrong with you.
You impose constraints on yourself, in the form of rituals and routine, and suddenly you are free, for as Michelangelo said, art lives on constraint and dies of freedom, and so do we
Our soldiers have captured North Korean military personnel in the Kursk region. Two soldiers, though wounded, survived and were transported to Kyiv, where they are now communicating with the Security Service of Ukraine. This was not an easy task: Russian forces and other North…
UPDATE: The Palisades Fire grew by 1,000 acres overnight and is now threatening the Brentwood community in Los Angeles. Most of the Brentwood neighborhood, where actors like Dennis Quaid live, have/are evacuating. The development comes after there was a "significant"…
I don’t think I’ve watched a video of these fires that has captured the meaning of home so completely. Pray for these people. 💙
Happy new year to you all! Some reflections on how we dress, and who we address: instagram.com/p/DEUiJwmo76y/…
All the amazing things that happened this year at Honeydew ✨. Read our 2024 in review by @BenjaminRamm here ⬇️
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Young adults are rapidly losing faith in democracy.
A beautiful short film about Honeydew in 2024. We are a thriving, resilient community – a blueprint for a sustainable alternative future. Wishing you all a wonderful festive season! 🎄 youtube.com/watch?v=PihQ-y…
Happy Birthday William Blake! "Sing your infant joy!" Birth always had good associations for Blake. He saw generation, as he called biological reproduction, as a reflection of regeneration, the renewal of all things from Eternity - the energies from which we're continually born.