2017
2/27/17 Everything Depends on It—Even If No One Sees It
12/20/17 Christmas Trees Kindle “Home” in a Burned Place
12/13/17 High-Flying Beauty for a Wounded Woodland
12/6/17 In Honor of a Beloved Garden
11/29/17 Naming Those We’ve Lost
11/15/17 Fanciful Beauty for a Favorite Plane
11/8/17 Flying Dreams: Artists Balance Wound and Beauty
10/25/17 New Yorkers Toast 100 Years of Water
10/11/17 Practicing the Gaze
10/4/17 Surviving Hurricane Brain
9/20/17 A Pilgrimage to Dachau
9/13/17 Man Confronts Harvey with Stuffed Animals and Piano Music
9/6/17 An Elderberry Bush Copes with Hard Times
8/30/17 Anonymous Partners in Ceremony
8/23/17 I’ll Ride With You, and Other Acts of Kindness
8/16/17 Why, If There’s No Guarantee
8/9/17 Introducing the Flip-Flop Princess
8/2/17 Try to Praise the Mutilated World
7/26/17 Tools for Making Magic Anywhere
7/19/17 Beauty for a Wounded Homeland
7/12/17 The Man Who Makes Time to See Beauty
7/5/17 A cemetery is a place of beauty
6/21/17 For the Earth That Had Never Been Danced On
6/14/17 “I Stayed for the Place”
6/7/17 What Do You Do After the Bomb Explodes? You Garden.
5/31/17 Does Land Live? Can It Revive?
5/24/17 You’re Not Really Alone
5/17/17 The Power of the Story
5/10/17 Children’s Lovely Response to Their Friend’s New Leg
5/3/17 A Little Girl Jumped In
4/26/17 You’re Only the First Artist
4/19/17 New Sandy Hook School: A Place to Inspire
4/12/17 Neighbors in Solidarity Revive Christmas in February
4/5/17 “Part of That Earth”
3/29/17 Make Guerrilla Beauty
3/22/17 Water Protectors Leave Camp Singing
3/15/17 When You Can’t Help Liking the Wrong Thing
3/8/17 A Murmuration of Starlings
3/1/17 Welcome What May Not Arrive
2/22/17 The First Gift of Beauty
2/8/17 Climate Change Made Visible—And Surreal
2/1/17 Praise the Place You Love
1/25/17 Women Meet Fear with Fierceness
1/18/17 They Would Always Touch the Earth
1/11/17 Life itself is the bearer of sacredness
1/4/17 Tiny Concert for Hard Times
2016
12/28/16 Winds are Worthy of Reverence
12/21/16 The Beast Moved by Wind
12/14/16 Beauty in the Burned Place
12/7/16 It’s an Inner Practice As Well
11/30/16 Art for Endangered Eagles
11/23/16 Who Will Cry for the Thylacine?
11/16/16 Today Make Sneaky Beauty
11/9/16 America Is a Wounded Place That Needs Some Beauty
11/2/16 RadJoy Is the Splash
10/26/16 Walking Water Traces Path of Vanished Rivers
10/19/16 “I Love Gasoline?”
10/12/16 What Do a Gardener, a Nurse, and a Duke Have in Common?
10/5/16 Breathe It In, Breathe It Out
9/28/16 “Crisis Will Shape You”
9/21/16 Cartwheels for Clear-cut
9/14/16 Making “Making Beauty” Personal
9/7/16 Can Feelings Stick to a Place?
8/31/16 Your Existential Act
8/24/16 Five Simple Ways to Bring Beauty to Wounded Places
8/17/16 Beauty in a Burned Forest
8/10/16 Circulating the Gift
8/3/16 Flowers Power: Rethinking Detroit’s Abandoned Homes
7/27/16 War, Peace, and Wild Piglets
7/20/16 “We want Afghanistan to heal!”
7/13/16 Shovels from Guns
7/6/16 Vigil for a Clear-cut
6/29/16 Pinned to the Places We Love
6/2216 Loss, Despair… Hilarity
6/15/16 “Well, I believe those things”
6/8/16 5 Reasons You Might Say No, 6 Reasons Not to Worry
6/1/16 The Return of Sweet Memories
5/25/16 “I saw how simple action can be”
5/18/16 The Hinge of Sorrow and Joy
5/11/16 So the Country Won’t Change Me
5/4/16 Not Afraid and Not Too Late
4/27/16 Presence!
4/20/16 How Water Talks
4/13/16 What Good Does Making Beauty Do?
4/6/16 Children Show How to Treat a River
3/30/16 Living with the Unfixable
3/23/16 On Not Saving the World
3/16/16 All Stories Welcome
3/9/16 Complicated Beauty
3/2/16 Playing in Place
2/24/16 Gentle Request/Strong Outcome
2/17/16 The Ash Is the Medicine
2/10/16 Giving Back with Artistic Expression
2/3/16 Who Dares Approach—And Stay
1/27/16 The Beauty of Yarn-Bombing
1/20/16 From Pain to Beauty with The Ground Beneath Our Hearts
1/13/16 Joy, Not Happiness
1/6/16 New Year’s Revolution
2015
12/30/15 Music Made from Crisis
12/23/15 Merriness Even If You’re Not
12/16/15 Portrait of Your Tears
12/9/15 For Your Book List
12/2/15 Dene People Make Amends for Hiroshima
11/25/15 When Everything Goes Wrong
11/18/15 #ParisAttacks #MoreLove
11/11/15 The Question of Jack Rossi’s Bleeding Tree
11/4/15 Wendell Berry on the Revival of Home
10/28/15 Artwork Highlights Bleeding Tree
10/21/15 Hurricane Katrina Hero
10/14/15 The Buddha of Oakland
10/7/15 The Practice of Radical Joy for Hard Times
9/30/15 How Mandela Fought the Prisoner’s Worst Enemy
9/23/15 Art Makes MRIs a Little Less Visible
9/16/15 Beneath Their Hearts
9/9/15 When the Place You Love Is Under Assault
9/2/15 Where Are the Earth’s Real Jewels?
8/26/15 Ceremony for a Tarnished River
8/19/15 Firecloud: Confronting Grief for a Thirsty Land
8/12/15 Acts of Kindness from Strangers
8/5/15 Amy Livingstone: Painting the Indigenous in Monotheism
7/29/15 Attitudes of Young People Changing the World
7/15/15 Who Loves Nature More?
7/8/15 Apologies to Blue Orchids
7/1/15 Singing Birds, Not Iron Birds, for Ukraine
6/24/15 Wise Words from a Young Boy
6/17/15 A RadJoy Pony for a Horse Farm in Mourning
6/10/15 Orchids Survive Telecom Bulldozing
6/3/15 Making Magic of Reviled Weeds
5/27/15 Where Is Joy on the Pyramid of Needs?
5/20/15 The Quilting of Grief
5/13/15 Tough as Lilies of the Valley
5/6/15 Now Transmitting Beauty
4/29/15 Apologies to the Redwoods
4/22/15 Joy Instead
4/15/15 The Trees Have Something to Say
4/8/15 Beauty in the Roof of a Car
4/1/15 Those Who Take Care of Waste
3/25/15 Escalate Non-VIolence
3/18/15 So Then What?
3/11/15 Pictograms for Lost Villages
3/4/15 Adults Can Play, Too
2/25/15 Tapestry of Grief and Healing
2/18/15 Releasing a Place from Imprisonment
2/11/15 Graveyard to Garden
2/4/15 How Beauty Turns to Love
1/28/15 Empty Spaces Turned to Art
1/21/15 Kneaded (Proud and Strengthened)
1/14/15 “The ash tree now comes in!”
1/7/15 Meet a Radical Conservative
2014
12/31/14 Breathe Out Joy
12/24/14 How an Ugly Christmas Tree Got Loved to Beauty
12/17/14 Container and Movement—A Ceremony
12/10/14 The Seed of Radical Joy for Hard Times
12/3/14 Meet the Olinguito
11/26/14 This Tree Is Birds
11/19/14 Raspberries. Drought.
11/12/14 Offerings on a Cinderblock Altar
11/5/14 A New Image of Earth?
10/29/14 A Tender, Unpredictable Relationship
10/22/14 “Touchstones for Inspiration”
10/15/14 “Look at the Dark and Ask”
10/8/14 A Little Green in a Sad Place
10/1/14 The Beauty of Imperfection
9/24/14 Intimate, Extraordinary, Necessary
9/17/14 Plastic Cloud on Sacred River
9/10/14 Finding Pearls in the Dirt
9/3/14 Resilience, Too
8/27/14 Breakage, Beauty, Tears
8/2014 Ugly Becomes Loved
8/13/14 Heroes and Heroines for the Future
8/6/14 Beauty for Wounded Nations
7/30/14 What the Norns Know
7/23/14 The Other Kind of Beauty
7/16/14 RadJoy Take-out Box Bird
7/9/14 Through the Cracks of a Broken Heart
7/2/14 For the River Called “Liquid Typhoid”
6/25/14 Picnic on the Gas
6/18/14 Partners with Beauty
6/11/14 5 Steps to Falling in Love in an Unlikely Place
6/4/14 Daring and Beauty in the Train Station
5/28/14 5 Tips for Making Beauty in a Wounded Place
5/21/14 As If the Light Didn’t Care
5/14/14 A Gift for a Sick Friend
5/7/14 When a Wounded Place Is Off Limits
4/30/14 I See the Place Transformed
4/23/14 Through the Broken Places
4/16/14 Being Truly Healthy Humans
4/9/14 This Picture Was Not Photoshopped
4/2/14 Dance of the Mergansers
3/26/14 An Exchange in a Wounded Place
3/19/14 In Bali the Forest Weeps
3/12/14 Walking the Path of the Tornado
3/5/14 Thought-tool #3
2/26/14 A Gift for Sea Turtles