The Parable of the Truss
It is the relationships between members (whether of a bridge or a community) that provide strength.
Lessons from Lebanon: A Meditation on Collapse
Collapse may visit you, too, one day. Have you imagined living through this?
How Do You Persuade Your Neighbor That His Chimney Is Too Straight?
Lessons from ancient China for negotiating the climate crisis.
Two Cycles Around the Sun
Celebrating two years of reflections on following the Gaian Way
What’s in a Name?
Exploring Group Dynamics along with Group Semantics
Two Bite-sized Reflections for Thanksgiving and the Holidays
How can we spend time with and show our love to our dear family and friends this COVIDy Holiday Season?
America’s Democracy in an Era of Collapse
An election reflection from a Gaian perspective.
Living with Collapse
Coming to terms with the reality that collapse is a condition of the present, not just the future.
Free Money Day? How about Free Veggie Day?
#FreeMoneyDay is a clever way to challenge people’s thinking. But is there a way to apply its sharing mission to charitable food distribution?
Say Three Hail Marys and Clean Up the River
It turns out that environmentalists have their own form of penance and ablutions: river and beach cleanups.
Celebrating and Finding Stillness in the Summer Solstice
What are you doing for the summer solstice? Perhaps a day of silence to balance the energy of the day?
A note of solidarity
Every time any one of us is hurt—black or white, human or not—it wounds us all. The waves of pain ripple outward, often times overturning only the vessels of the victims’ loved ones, and concentrating the pain there. Other times these waves become great tsunamis of anger and frustration, which wash over the whole world. And rarely, but it does happen, these seismic sea waves sweep away the systems of injustice that have been pulling us apart and injuring us one and all. Here is praying that this is one of those moments.