Radical Joy Revealed is a collection of posts from our Newsletter
How Is It Possible to Love a Hurt Place?
May 11, 2022Shortly after meeting in Cazenovia, New York in 2009 to design our new organization, Radical Joy for Hard Times founding member Noah Crowe experimented with the practice we’d devised to find and make beauty in …
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How to Fill a Hole
May 4, 2022What do you do with a big hole? Do you negotiate around it? Do you figure it’s beyond repair and try to ignore it? Or do you take the RadJoy approach and fill the hole …
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Reimagining the Unimaginable
April 27, 2022Author and educator Joanna Macy has taught that there are three positive ways of dealing with a difficult situation: 1. Fight to save what matters 2. Work to create new, positive alternatives 3. Change consciousness Sometimes, if we’re …
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#6—You Receive by Giving: Why RadJoy Works
April 20, 2022It’s customary to bring a gift to someone who’s ill or going through a hard time. We bring flowers, a book, something warm and delicious to eat. This gift is our recognition that the one …
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#5—It’s Anonymous: Why RadJoy Works
April 13, 2022When you make a gift of beauty for a hurt place, you use whatever “art supplies” the place offers you. You create this gift with everyone else who’s present. And you know that, when you’ve …
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#4—You’re Only the First Artist: Why RadJoy Works
April 6, 2022When you make a gift for a hurt place, you know that you’re only the first artist. Other forces will add to and subtract from your work after you’re finished. The art we make for …
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#3—The Place Gives What You Need for its Gift: Why RadJoy Works
March 30, 2022When you create a gift of beauty for a wounded place, you need no outside materials. No paints, no brushes, no ribbons, no clay, no ceremonial objects. The place will give you everything you’ll need. …
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#2—It’s Spontaneous Six Reasons Why RadJoy Works
March 30, 2022The RadJoy gift of beauty that you make for a wounded place is determined by several things: where you are, who you are, what happened there, and what the place now offers. One thing remains …
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