by Joe Fassler | Jul 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
A few weeks back, I gave a talk on feeling stuck. When I asked the audience for a show of hands — who’s struggled with writers’ block before? — sixty arms lifted without hesitation. It seems to be nearly universal among writers, that experience of staring at the...
by Lauren Zitney | Jul 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Everybody has a take on why young people are suffering this “mental health crisis.” Is it the loneliness? The social media? The opioids? The smartphones? The nicotine? The lack of sleep? COVID? Bad diets? Climate change? Here’s my take. It is all of these...
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...
