Radical Joy Revealed is a collection of posts from our Newsletter

10 Ways You Can’t Do It Wrong

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 [...]

What Is This Tree Saying to You?

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 [...]

What If…?

Did you ever see the episode of Mad Men in which Don Draper and his family are having a picnic in a park? When they get up to leave, Betty Draper shakes the tablecloth over the lawn, [...]

A Tree’s Point of View

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 [...]

A Ritual for the Whales

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 [...]

Watering Dead Trees

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 [...]

Radical Mystery for Hard Times

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 [...]

Revisiting a Very Wounded Place

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 [...]

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