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A Lesson from Yarn in Hard Times
I heard something a couple of days ago that struck me as a great lesson for how to find and make beauty in hard times. The woman who offered this piece of wisdom is a [...]
Why Not Just Skip to the Joy?
Every now and then someone complains that Radical Joy for Hard Times focuses too much on grief. Nature is full of beauty and wonder, they say. Why do we have to talk so much about [...]
Concert for a Very Green Audience
After closing for several months because of the coronavirus, Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu finally reopened on June 22 with UceLi string quartet playing Puccini’s “Crisantemi”. The audience of 2,292 was very attentive. All were [...]
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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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