Saved by Jay Matthews
The Pall Of Our Unrest
What we can do, however, is change our own expectations and choose a different way to do our work: not on behalf of “saving the world” but for the people around us. The planet is weeping, yes, but ultimately, the planet will be fine. The question is: How will we be? Our bravery is to continue to trust in human goodness and be present for people as
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I grieve for many things; the engine of my grief changes, sometimes hourly. I grieve for our increasingly hostile and uninhabitable world, and I grieve for the cruelties that make it so, both structural ones and ones that individuals inflict on one another. But today I am grieving because I struggle to fathom all of the material loss of meaningful ... See more
Hanif Abdurraqib • Lessons for the End of the World
We begin to face the ways in which we are complicit in this slow apocalypse, within and without. Only from such a place of loss and longing can we begin remembering ourselves home.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
How do we as citizens put things right? By, as Jung wrote, ‘touching nature from the inside’. Walking in the woods, lying on the grass, swimming in the sea, practising gratitude for our food, the air we breathe, the water we bathe in, the animals and stars and sunsets we delight in. Seeking the ‘numinous’ again, the sacred and the awesome in the in
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