Walking composition “When it comes to creating deep and lasting social and ecological behaviour change, the most effective approach is precisely to connect with people’s values and identity, not with their pockets and budget.” —Doughnut… Read more

Walking composition “Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.” —The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir I wanted to write a thing about dirt. I finally got fully… Read more

(Trust: necessary, but not sufficient) There’s this scene at the end of The Sound of Music* that I think about a lot, especially over the last several years. The von Trapp family, on the verge… Read more

Walking composition “Every one of us is an experiment, and we don’t even know what the experiment is testing.” —Bewilderment, Richard Powers There’s a word I’ve been wondering about. In the mornings before the sun… Read more

(I still don’t know, but am learning anyway) I have a lot of opinions about education, most of them developed over a twenty-plus-year career as a freelance copy editor for K-12 textbook publishers. That career… Read more

Walking composition “To your mad world—one answer: I refuse.” —from “Poems to Czechoslovakia,” Marina Tsvetaeva I had promised to write more about Konstantin V. Kustanovich’s book Russian and American Cultures: Two Worlds a World Apart*… Read more

(Spoiler alert: I don’t know) For some reason people often ask me about community—how to build it, how to get involved or engaged, what to do to make change. I’m not sure if this is… Read more

Walking composition “I don’t know if I can explain how fundamental this is. If someone comes to your table, you feed them, even if it means you’re a little hungrier. That’s how it works.” —Psalm… Read more

Walking composition “Indigenous resistance is not a one-time event. It continually asks: What proliferates in the absence of empire?” —Our History Is the Future, Nick Estes I have deadlines piling up faster than I can… Read more

Walking composition “A mere aristocracy of wealth will never struggle while it can hope to bribe a tyrant.” —Progress & Poverty, Henry George, 1879 There are things I can’t say. I was talking a few… Read more