At a time when this living planet and the geopolitical world we all inhabit are sorely challenged in many ways, Radical Joy for Hard Times offers a way to transform our relationship with and our perception of damaged places:

From: A waste thing you want to avoid

To: A living biocommunity you want to visit and get reacquainted with

From: A place that’s been rampantly taken from

To: A place you can now give back to

From: A site without meaning

To: Sacred ground you replenish with respect and awe

From: Something ugly, an eyesore

To: A field of potential beauty that you yourself bring forth

From: A strange place you must learn to forget

To: A loved place you relearn to remember and spend time with

To visit, experience, and make a simple gift of beauty for a hurt place is to refuse to capitulate to ugliness, despair, and powerlessness. It is to bring beauty to the world.