The Root of Happiness
Bodhicitta is a way of connecting to other lives, of saying we are nothing without that connection and that our connection to each other is deeper than we can ever truly know.
Category: Politics
Zombie America
America is under racist assault. It has been this way for centuries—as though a cult of the undead, the empty
Solidarity, Somatics and Psychosis
The classic design of the vessels transporting the kidnapped, the brutalized and dispossessed, the colonized masses brought from Africa to
Things I Can No Longer Do #1
There is nothing further left for me in data-heavy climate tracts. I have to turn away now. I don’t want to know—at least not in the cognitive sense of knowing–because I already know.
Collapse Redux
The basis of Jem Bendell’s original and revised paper on climate-induced societal collapse and Deep Adaptation was his review of current climate
Black Soil is the Other Oil
Ukraine is known as the “breadbasket of Europe.” According to a recent report from the Oakland Institute, it has one-third of all
This Time
In this time of Covid, economic upheaval, the climate monster bearing down on us, unrest and uncertainty, many are suffering.
The Global Violence Index
The relationship between the environmental movement and racism is clear. We’ve known this for a long time and it’s become
The Pornography of Everyday Life
In 1964, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously noted that pornography is “hard to define, but I know it when
Evangelicals and Trump: A marriage made in….USA.
What is it with evangelicals and Trump? He can do no wrong. In fact, the wrong-er he gets, the more
Spontaneous Presence 