by Nicole Civita | May 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Floored. By a book that takes us into and across the sky. Floored was the first word that came to my mind as I turned the last page. Months later, it is still the best single-word description of how I feel about Joe Fassler’s debut novel: The Sky Was Ours, which...
by John Hausdoerffer | May 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
“The fight for truth…is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.” ~Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy In January of 1973, United Farmworkers leader Cesar Chavez reached out to the Central Valley chapter of the...
by Nicole Civita | May 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
“My children will live a story that I cannot write and cannot control. It will be their story. To become a parent is to feel, every day, the weight and hope and terror of that fact. ” — Ezra Klein When I read something that strikes a chord, I often wonder about the...
by Nissa Coit | May 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
If you are close to me, there is a good chance you have had the opportunity to pick my brain about honey bees. People’s understandable excitement about them is endearing, and once upon a time, I would have delighted in sharing all the fascinating facts about a species...
by Nicole Civita | Apr 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
How might we be complicit in sustaining the dominant institutions and ways of knowing that continue to perpetuate harm? Are we willing to work harder, move slower, and sacrifice our comfort and ego in service to a different way of being?What we we doing to...
by Nicole Civita | Apr 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Education – in all its forms – has historically been concerned with both developing the capacities to secure human thriving and reproducing (or very slowly shifting) cultural norms and ideals. Higher education, in particular, has also served as a ladder for upward...
