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Fire and Light
Love of and care for Mother Earth has been the focus of my entire adult life (50 years). For those who don’t know me, one of the main ways I was led to this focus came from a vision of … Continue reading
Radical Hope in a Turbulent World
This new year begins with multiple global climate threats. Devastating fires burning in Australia are forcing thousands to be pushed to the water’s edge. Evacuations are occurring. Wildlife is being devastated. Nearly half a billion birds and animals are feared … Continue reading
My Radical Hope
With so many significant and for the most part negative forces at work in the world now it has been difficult to remain focused on the ideas from Jonathan Lear’s book Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation … Continue reading
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Radical Hope 2020
Greetings as a new year begins! Powerful forces at work indicate a number of significant events and changes will occur this year. Most important will be increasingly severe and frequent environmental disasters, which will stress cultures globally. For decades industrial … Continue reading
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Plenty Coups
Plenty Coups was the principal chief of the Mountain Crows of the Crow Nation and a visionary leader. He allied the Crow with the whites when the war for the West was being fought, because the Sioux and Cheyenne were … Continue reading
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Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
For a long time I’ve been trying to visualize how our (near) future might look. Even if our social, economic and political systems were working well, they can not for much longer. They are being overwhelmed by climate chaos, which … Continue reading
Cultural Collapse 2
I’ve loved nature all my life, raised on farms in Iowa, and family camping trips to our National Parks that began at an early age, and continued since. Spending hours most days outside as I walked to work, not having … Continue reading
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How to talk about the Green New Deal at the dinner table
So you’ve just walked in the door for a holiday dinner—your cousins are arguing, the air smells like baked cinnamon, and some combo of Fox, MSNBC or ESPN is playing in the other room. It’s the first time you’ve seen … Continue reading
Cultural Collapse
We are facing two major threats to our way of life, and quite possibly our survival. Capitalism has failed because it has created unbelievable maldistribution of wealth, pushing millions into poverty. And at the same time ravages natural resources which … Continue reading
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Radical Hope: Introduction
These days I keep an eye out for material related to Native peoples, environmental chaos, and what the future might look like. I also look for things related to hope. I believe hope is essential to help face dark and … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 