Radical Joy Revealed is a collection of posts from our Newsletter
“Walk with us”: A Sign of Radical Joy in Hard Times
June 10, 2020The United States of America has lived for 400 years with two great shames: the genocide and land theft of indigenous people and the enslavement of black people. Racism has endured. There have been attempts …
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Come Enter RadJoy’s New Dimension!
June 3, 2020First of all, thank you for being part of Radical Joy for Hard Times—for caring about the natural world and grieving when it is damaged. Every since RadJoy was founded in 2009, we’ve dreamed of …
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Lessons from a Dragonfly
May 27, 2020Anne Stine is a therapist and the founding director of Wilderness Rites in Ashland, Oregon. She has been leading Global Earth Exchanges every year since our very first one in 2010. Recently she remarked that …
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Finding Beauty in the Pandemic in Italy
May 20, 2020Lily Hewes is a 23-year-old British teacher who has been traveling and living in Europe, primarily in Italy, for the past two years. She wrote this piece for Radical Joy Revealed about how she lived …
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“This reminded me that it can get better”
May 13, 2020Jo Huxster first came to Radical Joy for Hard Times in a most unusual—and so far unprecedented—way. She and her now husband, Toby McCabe, made the Global Earth Exchange part of their wedding. Now a …
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The Earth is Witness
May 6, 2020During his long meditation under the bodhi tree, the Buddha was repeatedly taunted by Mara, the non-human energy of the Tempter. Calmly he resisted and ultimately he attained Enlightenment. Mara querulously demanded that he produce …
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The Cover That Says So Much
April 28, 2020This cover of The New Yorker says so much about how the coronavirus is affecting people. It tells a story that would take many words to tell and would not be nearly as poignant. Here …
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Can an act of beauty make a difference?
April 21, 2020Radical Joy for Hard Times doesn’t claim that we can heal wounded places; that’s way beyond our capability as humans. We can, however, heal the relationship between our places and ourselves. Yet every now and …
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