Karma Kitchen in Berkeley, CA and Washington DC operates on a gift economy as well. What do you think about these unique restaurants? How does it make you feel to watch this video? I’ll tell you how it makes me feel. Warm + fuzzy.

As you may already know, Lovemore believes in giving back, and doing so is one specific way we choose love more as a business. To that end, a portion of each Lovemore sale is donated to Earth Birth women’s health collective. We’ve written about Earth Birth and our connection to midwife and Earth Birth co-founder Rachel Zaslow previously, and you can catch up on that here. Today we’re excited to share a great video that will take you to the heart of Earth Birth and the important work they are doing in Uganda. We are incredibly appreciative to everyone who has embraced Lovemore and has enabled us spread the Lovemore message farther and wider. Together we are increasing the love quotient in the world, and what’s more important than that? (We can’t think of one thing.)

Random fun fact: the translators who work with Earth Birth have a very hard time understanding the American English accent, so you will hear Rachel and her partner Olivia display a couple different accents in this video.

“Mirror in the sky, what is love?” This is! These kids, this teacher, the moving with the music, and finally, the way they move others. And me to tears. Every single time! Amazing. Beautiful. Thank you PS22 for existing and putting so much more love in the world than existed before you opened your mouths and sang!

This sure is a message for this particular time and place, isn’t it? Well, the chorus anyway. Not the whole lovers on the boulevard thing. Anyway, I wanted to share the cutest 5th graders in the world with you and then I started to ponder how believin’, as it were, and Lovemore are related. Angela and I have talked a lot over the past year about how there are simply more challenges for almost everyone these days. And like everyone else, we get all caught up in the panic from time to time when we momentarily do stop believing. Oh do we ever. Usually around midnight, speaking our fears and letting the tears roll on a park bench in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

That said, we’re so thankful that we now have a spiritual home to return to in the mantra “love more.” Our belief that choosing love more is the answer to any and every question invariably grabs us by our shoulders, stops our spinning, and maneuvers us around until we are again pointed in the right direction. And from that perspective we see that there is an amazing gift in these difficult times. In the midst of a stressed out world, we as individuals can choose to grow our hearts big enough to hold this new level of challenge in love. We have the opportunity (perhaps unwelcome, but an opportunity nonetheless) to love*uncertainty*more, love*change*more, and love*vulnerability*more. As we practice bringing love instead of fear to what is tender, everything starts to shift and, well, we are 99.99% sure that is what will change the whole game. And that, we will never stop believin.