Radical Joy Revealed is a collection of posts from our Newsletter
Beauty and Terror
January 20, 2021Polly Howells of Glenford, New York writes of her confrontation with two great forces: For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still …
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“Affection for an Unwelcome Guest”—Our Global Day of Mourning
January 13, 2021“How do we stay in affectionate relationship with an unwelcome guest?” mused Francis Weller. The unwelcome guest he was referring to is COVID-19, and Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow, was speaking on the …
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The Cure for COVID is Medicine for the Earth
January 6, 2021A recent edition of Toronto’s Globe and Mail featured an article with a bold, yet fundamentally obvious point of view: curing COVID will take more than a vaccine; it demands a new relationship with the Earth. The …
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RadJoy Practice at the Crossroads (Literally)
December 30, 2020The ultimate goal of Radical Joy for Hard Times is that all places on Earth be loved and cared for. To that end, we recommend engaging regularly in the RadJoy Practice of finding and making beauty in …
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Bring Light!
December 23, 2020Monday, December 21, was the Winter Solstice. Each day now the light will slowly begin to arrive earlier and linger longer. And, oh, we are desperate for light now on this planet! We struggle to …
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Make Beauty This Season (Don’t Buy It)
December 16, 2020T’is is the season for gift-giving. But this is a year like no other— so why give gifts the same way we always did? Many small shops have had to close, whereas the big chain …
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Saying Goodbye from Afar
December 9, 2020We 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 …
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Coming together in sorrow means coming together in love
December 2, 2020The 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.” …
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