RADICAL JOY REVEALED
Weekly news and inspiration
Terry Tempest Williams “The Pall of Our Unrest”
On September 18, the New York Times Daily podcast featured Terry Tempest Williams reading her "Obituary for the Land." In it she implores all of us to realize that our American dream of "freedom" and [...]
The Beauty Impulse
No matter what’s knocked us down or how long we’ve been there, we can not only survive but thrive. Flattened by grief—ecological, social, personal—we can still be pierced by beauty, wonder, and delight. These gifts [...]
The Resilience of Green
I am sitting on a fold-up chair at the top of the asphalt driveway which brings us halfway up the mountain to where our house sits. The house was built in 1987, and the driveway [...]
52 WEEKS OF GUERRILLA BEAUTY
Ways to practice Radical Joy
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NEWS FROM OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Latest news and upcoming events from the Radical Joy community
RadJoy Joins the World Stage on Global Earth Exchange Week!
RadJoy and Good Grief Network to co-host RADICAL JOY AND GOOD GRIEF stage on international World Unity Week platform!
Brokenness & Beauty: Creating beauty as a transformative practice
Feminine Eldership Rising is a 3-day seminar featuring a variety of leaders in diverse fields. Trebbe Johnson will be presenting an online talk and workshop on June 24 from 1-3 PM EDT. All sessions will [...]
On Lying Beauty
The Practice of RadJoy entails going to damaged places and finding and making beauty there. We take a bold, honest look at what's before us, open up to difficult feelings of outrage and grief... and [...]
RECENT STORIES
Stories shared by the Radical Joy community
Climate Change Communication Class—Eckerd College
Skaket Beach, Orleans Massachusetts. This beach is one of my favorite places on the Cape to watch the sunset. The bay you see in the picture is becoming more and more of a wounded place. [...]
Radical Joy for Hard Times: Healing ourselves as we try to heal the world around us
Although I like to think that taking my Climate Change Communication class is a rewarding journey, I know that can also be emotionally taxing. We spend the entire semester talking about climate change, obviously, so [...]
Recreating beauty in a wounded national park
The south-east of Australia lost much of its wild places over the (southern) summer of 2019/20. Uncontainable bush fires ran through from August 2019 to early February 2020. People died, houses were lost and forest [...]
For Travelers at the Border
Carol Zuccarino is volunteering and living at a shelter on the border of Mexico to work with asylum seekers. She sent the following description of their Global Earth Exchange: Yesterday our small group of three [...]
IN THE MEDIA
Articles and references to Radical Joy in the media
Gifts in the Promised Land
The Jordan River, a geographical icon of religion, song, promise, and African American history, is, in truth, a wounded river. Trebbe Johnson was part of a pilgrimage to explore the wounds of the river and its people and bring ceremony and new life. https://radicaljoy.org/wp-content/uploads/Gifts-in-the-Promised-Land—Trebbe-Johnson.pdf
Conversation between Francis Weller & Trebbe Johnson
A conversation with Trebbe Johnson and Francis Weller In the fall of 2018, authors Trebbe Johnson and Francis Weller initiated a conversation that we anticipated would be rich, unexpected, and offer something vital to our [...]
Poetic references, wise counsel: Review of Radical Joy for Hard Times
Just before running out the door on the morning of September 27th, my eye was caught by a brief article in the paper announcing that a Trump Company proposal to build a 550–unit luxury housing [...]
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