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Richard Wagamese
I’ve often tried to describe writing as a spiritual practice for me. Almost never knowing what I will be led to say as I sit quietly each morning. Occasionally there will be a series related to a difficult, or inspiring … Continue reading
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Hello Rebels
Hello Rebels, Death Valley hits 130 degrees Fahrenheit — the hottest August temperature ever recorded on Earth. Fire tornadoes in California; Rare thunderstorms trigger new wildfires that are destroying the world’s largest Joshua Tree forest; A catastrophic derecho devastates Iowa’s … Continue reading
This just reminds me of the first time that white people came
I haven’t heard much news from the Wet’suwet’en peoples for a while. As has happened to some extent everywhere, things have slowed down because of the pandemic. One exception are those racing to further rape Mother Earth, to extract fossil … Continue reading
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Forget everything
It feels like the world is falling apart. Just last week a derecho smashed everything in its path as it roared through the Midwest. I wrote of my experience of being out running when it hit: https://kislingjeff.wordpress.com/2020/08/11/exhilarated-again/ Successive high temperature … Continue reading
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Water, go with the flow
This is one of those mornings where a story doesn’t come to mind. Normally I would go on to other things and wait until tomorrow to try again. This is a bit ironic since I have been asking you to … Continue reading
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Challenging you to publish your radical stories
Recently I’ve written about the power of stories, publishers of the truth, and radically rethinking our stories. I’ve written a lot about stories over the years: https://kislingjeff.wordpress.com/?s=stories. As Richard Wagamese wrote, “we change the world one story at a time.” … Continue reading
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Publishers of the truth
I often refer to the article written by James Allen, Pontoon Archipelago or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Collapse. Clearly we are living in increasingly chaotic times. Collapse is an apt characterization. I hadn’t thought of warning … Continue reading
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Sensemaking
It is increasingly difficult to make sense of all that is going on today. Its like all the bad things I had anticipated for what I thought would be the future are suddenly happening now. In addition, things I never … Continue reading
Exhilarated again
I say again, because I wrote another story about exhilaration in 2016 (below). When I was led to give up having a car over forty years ago, I had no idea of some of the consequences of doing that. I … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 