One practice that I’ve returned to that supports me living a more sustainable lifestyle is food composting.
As a spiritual, psychic, energy healing, wild woman, I’m very cognizant of my connection to the Earth. However, I still haven’t reached immunity to day-to-day life’s to-do lists, deadlines, and pressures not distracting me from being more present in remembering and internalizing this more.
I can get caught up in life happening around me when life is happening with and through me. All of the time, 24/7. Infinitely.
Composting literally grounds my energy.
It roots me in the earth and in the present. It reminds me that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Energy is infinitely being transmuted and transformed into something else all of the time. This is the never ending cycle of life. Practicing composting reminds me that everything is connected and can be reinvented, reimagined, and reborn.
The earth was made for constant transformation. Everything has a purpose and is mutable.
When I compost, I feel more creative. I feel in harmony with life and like I’m a sought after, co-creator with the earth. Composting feels like a collaborative project to make something new together.
Not like a series of events that happen independently of each other or in isolated vacuums. It’s all connected.
It also helps that New York City has made food composting a city-wide program. Ten years ago when I first participated in composting, I intentionally drove to a local park every Saturday morning to proudly drop off my dedicated bin of food scraps to a composting organization there. I’m glad the city sees the value and made it more accessible for all New Yorkers to participate.
Where the compost goes, I actually don’t know. I should research that, because now I’m curious. I hope it goes to providing richer soil and fertilizer back into our local parks, urban community gardens, farms, and more.
Life is an infinite cycle of giving and receiving. The more we give to the earth, the more it gives back to us. And the cycle continues. Give, receive, give, receive… When we’re not interrupting or stagnating this infinite cycle, lack, by spiritual law, cannot exist.
I hope the Lenape land receives NYC residents’ and my compost and encourages us to remember more often how we’re all connected to each other. That we don’t just exist for fun. We’re here to create and recreate with each other. That we’re all unique expressions, chains, and arrangements of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon atoms in motion.
Life isn’t happening around us, it’s happening with and through us.
Practicing composting daily helps me live a more sustainable and rooted lifestyle. It brings me great pride and joy and expands my peace.
Milan Noelle 
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