Beyond Hope or Despair, by Judy Fox
Although the prognosis for our planet still does not look good, I can’t stop responding. It’s beyond reason, beyond emotion, beyond hope or despair.
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Category: Fired Up! Essays
Bottled Up: A Parable in Plastic, by Anni Crofut Maliki
In this climate, even a plastic water bottle has the power to divide.
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Blood and Milk, by Mary Kate Jordan
Today I know a deep and everlasting love both for Kay, my milk mother, and for my blood mother, Marie. I wouldn’t be here without both of them. Although they’re gone now, together, they’re alive in me.
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Failing Feet and Finger Lakes, by Amy Nawrocki
Nothing ever evens out. Tears come down wet, whether in fear, grief, delight, or gratitude. That summer, I let the leg anomalies slip off the scales and chose joy over terror.
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Are we hypocrites, or just doing the best we can? by Judy Eddy
I consistently end up facing the same dilemma. Why should I live in a mud hut and never buy Spandex leggings or stream Netflix when the real destroyers of the planet will bring it down to its knees, anyway, from the comfort of their golf course in the tropics and with the money they’ve hidden in off-shore accounts?
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No Freedom on the 4th of July, by Mary Beth Ogulewicz
On this Fourth of July, a day of celebrating freedom and independence, my place, my heart, and my thoughts are with one who doesn’t have freedom.
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The Tipping Point by Barbara Newman
As a spiritual person who follows the way of love, and who above all values kindness, I loath myself for the hatred that lives in my belly.
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Dispatch from the Global Climate Action Summit by Uli Nagel
Can those who protest, those who create reforms within a system, those who establish new systems and those who dream radical new visions recognize each other’s importance and interdependence?
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Valley of the Goddesses: Finding Sanctuary in the Foothills of the Himalayas, by Amber Chand
Here in this reflective world of tea plantations and mountain walks, temple bells and sacred chants, hilltop monasteries and ancient marketplaces, I discover sanctuary.
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Editor’s column: To Life! by Jennifer Browdy
For many millennia on Earth, the cycles of life and death flowed smoothly, predictably. Then came...
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Great Barrington MA One of First Towns in United States to Ban Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles
Students to town: “Our generation is fed up with the pollution and toxicity that we have inherited. We want change.”
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Leaving Neverland, by Samantha Watson
It’s not that Neverland is so great. It’s just that it holds such a sense of possibility.
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