by Michelle Auerbach & Nicole Civita | Jul 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
This interlude on change making and coalition building is excerpted from Feeding Each Other: Shaping Change in Food Systems through Relationship. This book grew out of and is intertwined with the Change Shaping Certificate courses through EcoGather and with much of...
by Nicole Civita | Jul 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
A year to the day. The waters fell, the waters rose. Again. Boundaries breached. Again. Imbalance seeking its own resolution. The atmosphere holds what it can. Then water finds its level. Pulling banks into beds, collapsing edges, toppling centuries of habit and...
by Mia Werger | Jul 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
God brought every animal of the field and of the air to Adam to give them a name.So Adam named all the animals. I feel myself falling into words, into the names of things, like old memories. My parents once bought me a children’s atlas of the world, and I hid with it...
by Lauren Zitney | Jul 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
I have a friend. She is an actor in Chicago. People are skeptical she’ll “make it” – whatever anyone means by that. “Good luck!” they say. “It’s a one in a million shot. You’ll be waiting tables your whole life.” “I was born to act,” she replies. “I cannot do...
by Nicole Civita | Jun 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
By now, readers likely know that Juneteenth commemorates the day upon which exuberant freedom celebrations officially reached Galveston, Texas. On June 19, 1865, General Granger brought news of emancipation — and, importantly, the power to enforce the liberatory law —...
by Lauren Zitney | Jun 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
June 9, 2024 Yesterday was a day of dance. My mom, my partner Noah, and I formed a trio, and headed to visit our 93-year-old friend named Gil. We were saying goodbye. He was dying. When our trio joined the room, the somber, yet kind faces of his family said welcome as...
