Interdependence invites us to awaken from the sleep of individualism and recognize the inherent web of connection where each personal choice and belief ripples through this collective experience. It calls us to practice deep listening—attuning and responding to the needs of our human and more-than-human kin—understanding that true community emerges as we move beyond consuming these gathering experiences to consciously engaging as integral parts of the living whole. Through this lens of belonging, reciprocity, equity-based sharing, and tending to the margins, we honor the ancestral wisdom that sees the one as the whole and the collective as its own organism. As we gather, we embrace interdependence not merely as a concept but as a live practice of holding all life in deep consideration, stretching our awareness into mutual support for the good of all.”