After over 100 years of conflict which for the most part was managed by men, Israeli and Palestinian women say “enough” and join in a pact of partnership

How to change human destiny in time

Three poems about how to begin (again)

Cicely, Alaska is ‘an ensouled town’,… one feels Cicely itself to be a living, breathing, being. Its central characters coexist with it in a deeply soulful, deeply ecological manner.

You probably imagine that English is bereft of terms that speak of our relatedness to all things. Think again. 

The vital art of protecting and tending the imagination

There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us…We must look at ourselves differently. We are freer than we think… One human life is deeper than the ocean… A single thought of ours could change the universe….

Imagine raising children in a culture in which gratitude is the first priority

The dawn of the days following the Pandemic began with wanting something better for our parents than the Old Age Homes of yesterday…

From all these beginnings, perhaps the most mysterious of all are the Norse beings of Time

Enter a database where one can access thousands of nature’s elegant solutions to various challenges

We took back our hopes of the messianic future to come, dismantled them and refashioned them into a kind of floor or ground under us. We made them into a kind of sky above us. We made them into a kind of home.

Ursula Le Guin on how to use the powers of darkness and imperfection to create a new world

A 12 hour breath, held in the body - I save power for the sparrows and voles. The longer I charge, the stiller I sit, and the more they come close, furtive…

In 2023, Los Angeles finally follows the precedent set by Minneapolis and several other American cities and dismantles the LAPD… several new agencies are formed with the LAPD’s forfeited budget.

“…we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Against a shitty future

It is 2050. We have been successful at halving emissions every decade since 2020… In most places in the world, the air is moist and fresh, even in cities…

This is how it was for him. The waking up…