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Beauty and Terror
Polly Howells of Glenford, New York writes of her confrontation with two great forces: For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still [...]
“Affection for an Unwelcome Guest”—Our Global Day of Mourning
“How do we stay in affectionate relationship with an unwelcome guest?” mused Francis Weller. The unwelcome guest he was referring to is COVID-19, and Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow, was speaking on the [...]
The Cure for COVID is Medicine for the Earth
A recent edition of Toronto’s Globe and Mail featured an article with a bold, yet fundamentally obvious point of view: curing COVID will take more than a vaccine; it demands a new relationship with the Earth. The [...]
52 WEEKS OF GUERRILLA BEAUTY
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NEWS FROM OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Latest news and upcoming events from the Radical Joy community
RadJoy’s Newsletter Takes to the Cloud
Newsletter #25, January 2021 Uplook: The RadJoy Newsletter Taking to the Cloud It's been a while since we've sent out a RadJoy Newsletter. And those of you who have received it in the past may [...]
RadJoy Cited for Environmental Hospice Practices
Environmental Hospice And Memorial As Redemption Public Rituals For Renewal
Global Day of Mourning
On January 11, 2020 a 61-year-old man from Wuhan, China became the first reported casualty of coronavirus. Since then this lethal disease has infected more than 50 million people worldwide and killed more than 1 [...]
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
Global Day of Mourning Featured in Forbes Magazine blog
It goes without saying that the majority of people around the world were ready to say goodbye to 2020 last week. In embracing 2021, many took to social media, posting images and quotes about their [...]
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
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