Stories shared by the Radical Joy community
Songs in the Traveling Monastery
July 14, 2021For the past month Radical Joy Revealed has featured some of the many wonderful stories from this year’s Global Earth Exchange. Yet a pilgrimage to a hurt place, planned and shared, is not the only …
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What’s in the Dirt?
July 7, 2021There are so many things I love about this story: (1) It’s about dirt, Georgia red clay, specifically, and it’s both a discovery and a kind of love story, (2) It was written by someone …
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Linden Tree Stump Medicine
July 11, 2021Anne, John, Medicine Buddha & many others are saving—from devastation of proposed concrete and steel production plant—Onteora Lake, Pickerel Pond, extraordinary wildlife, Bluestone wild forest in Kingston, NY, with the help of Linden tree stump …
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A Ceremony for Jabu
July 11, 2021Two gorgeous elephants, Jabu and Morula were “released” from 32 years in captivity into the Okavango Delta. They were set free (although that is a relative term because they were chased from pillar to post …
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History’s River
July 10, 2021The river Orontes passes through Antakya (Antioch) City that has a rooted history from Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods to Ottoman Empire, French mandate and Turkish Republic times. While the river is the reasoning of …
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Rethinking the Small Things
July 10, 2021I’m thinking about the small things we do that harm nature. I planted a pyramidal Norway Spruce four years ago. I wanted the tree to block my view of a neighbor’s bathroom window, one without …
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Souls In-earthed
July 10, 2021The Kirkbride Cemetery itself and the Poor Farm Cemetery. Both are full of graves, most unmarked. Crates with rusting bindings edge the cemetery; each crate has five grave markers engraved with names and dates of …
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Soda Mountain-Cascade Siskiyou Earth Exchange
July 7, 2021On June 12, eight lovers of Radical Joy met with Dave Willis, chair of the Soda Mountain Wilderness and Cascade Siskiyou Monument, on the land itself. Each year Dave chooses a site he wants us …
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