For our second year, our Global Earth Exchange brought together members of Lynda’s longstanding Active Hope group and family and friends inspired by Radical Joy’s ethos and practice, to observe the Summer Solstice with new [...]
Solstice Saturday, June 21, in Woodstock, NY, eight of us gathered in the woods along the banks of the stream where we were headed a shortways upstream to the site of an ancient handbuilt dam [...]
The "Earth Matters" ministry of Irvine United Congregational Church hosted this event early on Sunday morning. It was new and we were pleased that four of us showed up. We had originally planned to have [...]
Helena and I were there as witness, speaking of the past and present, honoring the deeper truths now hidden in the past.
We did our Earth Exchange at Manzanar Relocation Center, the site of one of ten American concentration camps. More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to November 1945. [...]
We chose a residential site located in Manoa Valley on the island of Oahu in Hawaii for our Global Earth Exchange. In pre-European contact times, the area was mainly used for agriculture by Native Hawaiians [...]
We carried so much grief for the world and Earth into our ceremony. We created a ring of natural objects around a patch of green growth. After sharing stories, prayers, & song, we left feeling [...]
Many local people described how torn they feel, between the employment provided by the quarry for locals, and the noise, disturbance, danger and damage caused by the quarry and its traffic. It disturbs the bird [...]
I was face to face with a Tawny the night I learned that their main food source, the Bogong Moth was in the first stage of environmental collapse. Close up to this beautiful bird that [...]
I needed to get my hike in today before the heat comes. I grabbed my Rad Joy banner and set out to hear the birds. For the first half of my hike, I heard very [...]