Radical Joy Revealed is a collection of posts from our Newsletter
Every now and then, around this time of year, in the weeks leading up to the Global Earth Exchange, someone emails to tell me they’d like to participate in our annual event of giving beauty [...]
A young woman I know who lives in North Carolina considers herself an ardent environmental activist. She belongs to the Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society, works for an organization that runs therapeutic wilderness programs [...]
Radical Joy for Hard Times has always urged our members around the world to give attention and beauty to those places and beings that have meaning for them. It’s not necessary to seek out some [...]
Barry Lopez, the late nature writer, used to stop his car and get out to remove dead animals from roadsides. For him, this was a spiritual practice, “a ritual of apology and an acknowledgment of [...]
Sometimes we’re invited to live by our principles at the very moment we’d rather have things go more satisfactorily our own way. As a great fan of the Parliament of the World's Religions and an attendee [...]
Ever since our very first Global Earth Exchange in 2010, Autumn Van Ord and Lisa McCall of Baltimore have been going to Wyman Park to offer some attention and beauty. As a large, popular urban [...]
A Diné (Navajo) friend once told me a story about how a porcupine thanked her grandmother. Every day the woman had to walk a long way from her traditional hogan to get water. One day [...]
Tuesday, July 6, was the hottest day in human history. During that very hot month that has just ended, wildfires raged in Canada and Spain; floods inundated cities in Vermont, Italy, India, and Japan; and [...]
This year’s Global Earth Exchange on June 17 inspired people to give attention and beauty to hurt and endangered places in at least 11 countries and 19 U.S. states! (And the stories are still trickling [...]
Last Saturday, June 17, was RadJoy's 14th annual Global Earth Exchange, the day when people all over the world go to wounded places they care about and give them attention and beauty. This was the [...]