Songs in the Traveling Monastery
For the past month Radical Joy Revealed has featured some of the many wonderful stories from this year's Global Earth Exchange. Yet a pilgrimage to a hurt place, planned and shared, is not the only [...]
Linden Tree Stump Medicine
Anne, John, Medicine Buddha & many others are saving—from devastation of proposed concrete and steel production plant—Onteora Lake, Pickerel Pond, extraordinary wildlife, Bluestone wild forest in Kingston, NY, with the help of Linden tree stump [...]
A Ceremony for Jabu
Two gorgeous elephants, Jabu and Morula were "released" from 32 years in captivity into the Okavango Delta. They were set free (although that is a relative term because they were chased from pillar to post [...]
History’s River
The river Orontes passes through Antakya (Antioch) City that has a rooted history from Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods to Ottoman Empire, French mandate and Turkish Republic times. While the river is the reasoning of [...]
Rethinking the Small Things
I'm thinking about the small things we do that harm nature. I planted a pyramidal Norway Spruce four years ago. I wanted the tree to block my view of a neighbor's bathroom window, one without [...]
What’s in the Dirt?
There are so many things I love about this story: (1) It's about dirt, Georgia red clay, specifically, and it's both a discovery and a kind of love story, (2) It was written by someone [...]
Soda Mountain-Cascade Siskiyou Earth Exchange
On June 12, eight lovers of Radical Joy met with Dave Willis, chair of the Soda Mountain Wilderness and Cascade Siskiyou Monument, on the land itself. Each year Dave chooses a site he wants us [...]
Goobye to Our Houses, Lost in Fire
For one month after this year's Global Earth Exchange on June 12, each Radical Joy Revealed will feature one of the wonderful stories of how a few people in our global community found and made [...]
I walked to the fields where my sister, her two kids and I had done a Global Earth Exchange in 2015. These fields had been in my family for five generations and now a cousin [...]