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Aloha Friends, 

I hope this newsletter update finds you thriving. Itzcuauhtli, now 19, has moved into his own apartment here on Maui. Wow, is it ever hard to let your babies go! Tonantzin and I continue to hold down the home front with an empty room for visiting family. Speaking of visits, I am turning 60 this month and five of my six children start arriving on the island today to celebrate. I have been really busy with my writing project and am looking forward to taking an inbreathe and exploring this beautiful island with them.

It has been almost a year since I stepped down as Executive Director and returned home to Maui. As many of you know, Earth Guardians grew exponentially in my past five years as Executive Director. I was advised that to manage the growth  I'd have to "institutionalize" Earth Guardians. Being someone who grew up outside of conventional institutions, I put one foot in front of the other and followed their advice. I put together a really ACTIVE board of directors and that was the beginning of our family's departure from Earth Guardians. I had led Earth Guardians from the heart, and what can I say? My baby grew up and outgrew me, just as our own children do. Earth Guardians foundation is strong and was built over 3 decades by a family with unconditional love, one of the strongest forces on the planet, so I know it will endure and flourish. My hope is to one day be in a place to monetarily support the amazing work all the Earth Guardian youth crews are doing around the world. 
Mensa Tsedze Regional Program Director has grown Earth Guardian crews in 21 countries across Africa engaging and educating thousands of youth on our climate crisis.
Earth Guardians Bhutan was one of our first Earth Guardian Crews working tirelessly to educate and engage youth in schools on issues impacting their community

I must admit that surrendering 30 years of my life's work was a very painful giveaway as I mentioned in my last newsletter. I now understand it was necessary, that I was being prepared to launch into my next assignment with the Oversoul of Earth Guardians. It feels like a continuation of my work but in another form. 

Returning home to Hawaii after 30 years on the frontlines of global change has allowed me to take a really deep breath and dive into the significant events in my own life that led me to this path of service. The full-scope of the realizations that I am coming to is guiding the direction of the book I am writing, with the working title, EarthBound. It has been a tremendous amount of work but this project has really come to life and I am feeling inspired daily by the writing process. 

Although EarthBound centers around the madness and miracles of my own life story, it is not exactly a memoir. It is more of a road map to finding our way out of the unhealthy social constructs that hold us captive. EarthBound shines a light down the pathway that connects our own inner transformation to outer change. I have high hopes of encouraging a whole new audience, young and old alike, to work with haste to replace the destructive systems with new ones that are already being imagined, constructed, and implemented by many of YOU. 
So grateful and blessed to have this as my space to connect and to write~
I have known what it is to be abandoned and replaced, to be sexually abused, homeless, and to be in juvenile detention over and over again. I know what it is to be a single parent on welfare, to see someone I loved shot, my husband stabbed, to be beat up by someone I trusted, to feel betrayed. I know what it means to grow up without a proper education and to have to navigate a world that "works" for some, but is destroying the planet for all. I also know, first hand, what it is to be motivated and guided by a spiritual presence. I feel that connection saved me on multiple occasions. I believe many will relate to my story and be called to engage and accelerate the transformation we are undergoing both internally and externally on the planet. Sometimes I feel EarthBound is writing itself as my story continues to unfold, supporting me in my own healing as I write. 

Growing up, I experienced many out-of-the-ordinary, non-drug-induced occurrences. They instilled in me the knowing that we are all connected by and to something much larger than our individual selves. This perspective is what gives me courage to accomplish the tasks I am given daily and the impetus to share these experiences that I have previously kept private.

Many of us come from difficult pasts but they don't have to define who we become, we can use those hard lessons to heal ourselves and transform our planet. EarthBound will have many unexpected twists and turns, some that may make your jaw drop and leave you wondering how I made it out and was able to raise six amazing children and launch a global force on the planet. Well, stay tuned, I am excited to soon share my story with you. 

This book wouldn’t be possible without the support of my book project manager, Laura Civitello, who has been with me every step of the way. It is unfolding into something I never imagined and my prayer is that its message reaches mainstream audiences and helps turn the tides on our impending collective internal and external crises.   

With Love,
Tamara Rose Roske

 
I am honored to introduce Laura
-see her story below of our friendship and how she couldn’t escape our
destiny together:
When I first met Tamara Roske well over 3 decades ago she breezily told me some stories of her childhood with startling details that always stayed with me.

Her large family's love was palpable and all their eyes were bright with hopes for the world. Although I attended the birth of her brother's first child, was a regular at Tamara's family's cafe, and was well aware of their father's work towards global healing, I was not attuned to their reeling  and lost touch with these siblings.

In the late 1990s with nothing but a backpack and the general destination of Santa Fe, NM. I left Maui on an open-ended trip to see what life elsewhere had to offer.

I wandered the streets of Sante Fe that summer just to see where random right and left turns would lead me. It led me right back to the Roskes and the first generation of Earth Guardians. Those first Earth Guardians had already accomplished so much. Everything had a forward momentum and Tamara was the Sun shining in the center,

I was scooped up by the energy of their purpose. The whole clan was as lively as ever; more so with the addition of new little family members and a young Aztec/Mexica named Siri. I had little to offer other than a calm presence and a small house to host the overflow of the older kids, but realizing the power and potential of Earth Guardians gave my brief time their great meaning.
I stayed in Santa Fe just 7 months before the illness of a friend brought me home to Maui. 14 years passed before I saw any of the Roske's again.

In 2012, when I was about 7 years into my career running a non-commercial radio station and youth program,Tamara and her children and grandchildren showed up here on Maui. We were both too busy at that time to deeply share but Xuihtezcatl and Itzcuahtli came to the youth center and I went to hear them perform. I understand now why they really were here.

In 2020 when I heard from Tamara that she was moving back to Maui with her two youngest children. I was still submerged in my career and remember telling her that if she didn't move really close to me she probably wouldn't see me much. Despite Maui's severe housing crisis she found a place just 2 miles from me.

We really connected this time; an easy and exciting friendship renewed on walks through the Upcountry forests where our mutual passion for nature bonded us. As she began to fill in all the details of the missing years I felt called to something as yet unborn.

I had always known that Tamara had " A Vision" and had taken that to mean that she'd had a Big Idea: Earth Guardians. As we make our way into the dense forest of the real story, the literal Vision is revealed. 

As we climb this steep path, I am committed to assisting Tamara to bring this important story of a woman called to the service of our future into the world. It's so nice to be introduced to the incredible community that Tamara has built and nourished all these years. She has shared so many of your stories with me. 
 
Warm Regards,
Laura
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