Walking composition “‘Things have been going wrong for a lot longer than you think,’ Alden said. ‘It’s just that they’ve finally gone wrong enough for you to notice.’” —Caught in Crystal, Patricia C. Wrede The… Read more

Walking composition “Being independent of Nature was considered one of the defining characteristics of freedom itself. Only those people who had thrown off the shackles of their environment were thought to be endowed with historical… Read more

Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership The most recent Threadable reading* for Land Ownership was a selection from Henry George’s 1879 book Progress & Poverty, Part VII: Justice of the Remedy, Chapter I: The Injustice… Read more

Walking composition “I will not forget where I come from. I will craft my own drum. Gather my beloved near and our chanting will be dancing. I will not be played. I will not lend… Read more

Walking composition “Like eagle rounding out the morning Inside us. We pray that it will be done In beauty. In beauty.” —from “Eagle Poem,” Joy Harjo Last week I stood outside the middle school playground… Read more

Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership The most recent Threadable reading* for Land Ownership was a selection from Nick Estes’s book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the… Read more

Walking composition “We have to accept that our world changes radically and perpetually, and that it changes with us and in us, and that we have an obligation to perceive, to intuit, to sense this… Read more

The first step might be believing in what’s possible A few weeks ago I was a guest on an international roundtable webinar-type thing for walkability advocates. It was a delightful hour and a half—I don’t… Read more

Essay When I was little, maybe eight or nine years old, I used to clean house for an older woman, Cora, who lived across the street from us. Mostly dusting and floors, for which she… Read more

Walking composition “The word ‘economics’ makes me hiss like Gollum in Tolkien’s The Hobbit: ‘I hates it, I hates it, I hates it forever.’ For I believe classical economic theory, and all the theories it… Read more