Radical Joy for Hard Times is an organization, practice, and worldwide community dedicated to giving back to those places on Earth that have given so much to us and can’t give what they used to.
EVERY PLACE MATTERS
Radical Joy for Hard Times is a worldwide community of people dedicated to bringing meaning, beauty, and value to places that have been damaged by human or natural acts.
We are willing to face the sorrow we feel when the places we care about have been hurt and to respond not by turning our backs but by boldly stepping forth to spend time with these places and offer them gifts of love and gratitude for all they have given to us. We believe that in these troubling times, taking care of the places where we live in the present, even as we work for a better future is an essential tool for survival.
Listening to the land and to one another, we discover a new sense of belonging. We gain the courage to go through hard times, for we see that it is always possible to give beauty and kindness. We recognize that all places, like all people, have inherent value. We discover that, although we may disagree with our neighbors about some things, we share a deep and abiding love of place.
We understand that we are all connected in the common ground beneath our hearts.
Making Beauty for a World of Hurt
The 2020 Global Earth Exchange
June 20-27, 2020
The whole world is a wounded place right now because of the coronavirus…
and we could all use a little extra beauty, compassion, and generosity!
This 11th year of the Radical Joy Global Earth Exchange offered more opportunities than ever before to find and make beauty for wounded places.
A Global Day of Mourning
for All Victims of Coronavirus
January 11, 2021
On January 11, 2020 a 61-year-old man from Wuhan, China became the first reported casualty of coronavirus.
Since then this lethal disease has infected more than 37.5 million people worldwide and killed more than 1 million. Many have lost their jobs, education is in crisis, and families are separated. Dreams are deferred, and friends can’t embrace at a time of grief.
It is time to mourn
all we have lost to coronavirus.
Radical Joy for Hard Times declares Sunday, January 10, 2021
a GLOBAL DAY OF MOURNING.
Finally: a day for the world to unite—
to pause, reflect, pray, create—
—and embrace the beauty of life throughout it all.
GLOBAL EARTH EXCHANGE STORIES
Feed your soul with stories of heartache and radical joy!
Keep coming back! Featured stories will change regularly.
Climate Change Communication Class—Eckerd College
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But the trees never came back
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Overhauling
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