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

Walking composition “I can’t believe the things you say. I can’t believe, I can’t believe the price we pay.” — “. . . And Justice for All,” Metallica I’ve been cold a lot recently. It’s… Read more

Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership The most recent Threadable* reading selections were the two 15th-century papal bulls that comprise the Doctrine of Discovery, along with a short introduction to Bull Inter Caetera of 1493… Read more

Walking composition “I don’t like planets. There’s dust and weather, and something always wants to eat the humans.” —The Murderbot Diaries: Exit Strategy, Martha Wells I had the most beautiful hunting day recently, just before… Read more