Radical Joy Revealed is a collection of posts from our Newsletter
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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The Resilience of Green
September 16, 2020I am sitting on a fold-up chair at the top of the asphalt driveway which brings us halfway up the mountain to where our house sits. The house was built in 1987, and the driveway …
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Radical Joy Revealed Must Take a Short Break
August 12, 2020Today I write with the heartbreaking news that my beloved husband, Andy Gardner, is close to death. He was diagnosed with liver cancer a week ago and has been declining steadily ever since. I will …
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“Grabbing” Beauty?
August 5, 2020In my book, Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth’s Broken Places, I write about “grabbing” beauty: “The way to survive, I’m convinced, is to keep zealously grabbing and giving as …
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A Lesson from Yarn in Hard Times
July 29, 2020I 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 …
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Why Not Just Skip to the Joy?
July 22, 2020Every 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 …
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Concert for a Very Green Audience
July 15, 2020After 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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Some Beauty for My Enemies
July 8, 2020What is a wounded place? people sometimes ask, as they consider if and how to make beauty for such a place. A wounded place is a place that, when you think of what’s happening to …
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