Radical Joy Revealed is a collection of posts from our Newsletter
But the Trees Never Came Back
November 10, 2020Sometimes the places in our lives that have been damaged become so familiar that we almost forgot how sad and angry we were when they were first damaged. We pass them every day, dulled to …
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Artist Honors Children Who Have Died at the Border
November 4, 2020Nancy Margulies is an artist whose work is dedicated to addressing social issues. “Art as Activism is my focus,” she says. This painting on canvas, which resembles a mural created directly on a brick wall, …
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Sharing Grief Under a Golden Tree
October 28, 2020The other day I drove over to the farm of my neighbors a few miles down the road, because I needed some maple syrup, and they have been tapping their own trees and maple sugaring …
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20,000 Chairs in front of White House Memorialize COVID Victims
October 21, 2020At the time of this blog, more than 220,000 Americans have died of coronavirus. On Sunday, October 4, a chilling visual symbol of those deaths spread out on the grassy Ellipse near the White House. …
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Pitcher Plants & Other Great Teachers
October 14, 2020When we’re challenged by hard times—environmental, social, personal—nature can offer valuable lessons on how to endure. In her book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, about growing up in rural Georgia, Janisse Ray describes the life lessons she …
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Hope Emerges for Morton National Park
October 7, 2020RadJoy member Andy Carnahan first contacted us in the spring of this year. He had heard about our work and was interested in participating in the Global Earth Exchange on behalf of his beloved Morton …
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Terry Tempest Williams “The Pall of Our Unrest”
September 30, 2020On 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 …
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The Beauty Impulse
September 23, 2020No 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 …
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