Radical Joy Revealed is a collection of posts from our Newsletter
Songs in the Traveling Monastery
July 14, 2021For the past month Radical Joy Revealed has featured some of the many wonderful stories from this year’s Global Earth Exchange. Yet a pilgrimage to a hurt place, planned and shared, is not the only …
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What’s in the Dirt?
July 7, 2021There are so many things I love about this story: (1) It’s about dirt, Georgia red clay, specifically, and it’s both a discovery and a kind of love story, (2) It was written by someone …
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Goobye to Our Houses, Lost in Fire
June 30, 2021For one month after this year’s Global Earth Exchange on June 12, each Radical Joy Revealed will feature one of the wonderful stories of how a few people in our global community found and made …
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Acts of Beauty for an Old, Recovering Olive Tree
June 23, 2021For one month after this year’s Global Earth Exchange on June 12, each Radical Joy Revealed will feature one of the wonderful stories of how a few people in our global community found and made …
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Medicine and Resilience with the Noni Plant
June 16, 2021Lizabeth Kashinsky writes: Several weeks ago, I was delighted to have discovered a noni plant growing in a back corner of my yard. Noni is a very important medicinal plant for Hawaiian healers and is …
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Although we cannot heal the Earth…
June 9, 2021Until recently, there was no way either to address the sorrow we feel when a place or an animal or plant species is hurt or lost—and certainly no way to soothe that hurt or offer …
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An Act of Radical Survival
June 2, 2021Rediscovering wounded places through attention and gifts of beauty is an act of radical survival. There are hurt places all over the Earth and in all our lives. Your hurt place might be a field …
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We Pause to Say Goodbye
May 26, 2021Many people in the village of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts were saddened to learn that a road reconstruction project would necessitate the removal of eleven old trees. Although the town will be planting fourteen new trees …
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