Radical Joy Revealed is a collection of posts from our Newsletter
The first 2023 Global Earth Exchange story has arrived from Germany. Ramey Rieger, a translator in English and German, has formed a group inventively called Die Erde Zu(ge)hören. In German, zuhörenmeans "to listen to", while [...]
Ten days from today, June 17, is RadJoy’s Global Earth Exchange. Dozens of people around the world have signed up to participate in this beloved annual ceremony of going to hurt places and giving them [...]
Today's Radical Joy Revealed focuses solely on the remarkable photo above. It was taken by Jessica Hess, one of the participants in Attending the Earth, a course I taught recently at OneSpiritInterfaith Seminary in New [...]
When people go to a wounded place they care about for the Global Earth Exchange or simply as a practice of giving beauty where it’s needed, most of us set our sites on a natural [...]
How would we regard the world around us if we looked at it from the point of view of another species? One of the characters in Elif Shafak’s novel, The Island of Missing Trees, is a [...]
By mid-July 2019 the bodies of 170 gray whales had washed up onto California’s beaches. That number, large and alarming as it was, probably represented only about 10% of all the whales who had died [...]
Author Sumana Roy was taking care of her young niece and nephew in Siliguri, India while their mother had COVID. They were outside on the terrace, and the young people were helping their aunt water [...]
An article in the New York Times called “Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room” recounts the story of Alina Black, a mother of two in Portland, Oregon, who was suffering extreme anxiety about climate change. She worried [...]
Many members of the RadJoy network has participated in our annual Global Earth Exchange almost every year. Among them are Farion Pearce of Ventura, California and her friends. They have made it a practice to [...]