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Environmental Hospice And Memorial As Redemption Public Rituals For Renewal
Saying Goodbye from Afar
We are here today in the open air, in the midst of seeds and leaves, of pollen and dust. We are here in the midst of a world that turns through time and changes and [...]
Coming together in sorrow means coming together in love
The South African cleric and human rights activist, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has said he can tell within five seconds if somebody he meets practices ubuntu. Ubuntu is a Zulu word meaning, “I am because we are.” [...]
Radical Joy at a Scary Time
When her three-year-old son needed surgery, Harriet Sams returned to her former home in northern England from France, where she, her husband and three children recently moved. Harriet’s anxiety about the operation was compounded by [...]
Global Day of Mourning
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 50 million people worldwide and killed more than 1 [...]
We have all lost something
On November 16, more than 166,000 people in the United States were diagnosed with COVID-19. In Europe, where the number of cases had fallen during the summer, the disease is again spiking. Everywhere hospitals are [...]
But the Trees Never Came Back
Sometimes the places in our lives that have been damaged become so familiar that we almost forgot how sad and angry we were when they were first damaged. We pass them every day, dulled to [...]
Artist Honors Children Who Have Died at the Border
Nancy Margulies is an artist whose work is dedicated to addressing social issues. “Art as Activism is my focus,” she says. This painting on canvas, which resembles a mural created directly on a brick wall, [...]
Sharing Grief Under a Golden Tree
The other day I drove over to the farm of my neighbors a few miles down the road, because I needed some maple syrup, and they have been tapping their own trees and maple sugaring [...]