Every day now I roll out of bed and go right to the high-performance morality gym. I have to. The multiple existential threats we face require moral dexterity, and as a Boomer I’ve gotten flabby. At the gym I train my mind, heart, body …
Is it too weird to say that, as bad as the first half of 2020 has been, it’s been a relief? A tiny virus has achieved what decades of activism could not: stop us in our self-destructive tracks. She essentially sent us to our rooms …
Think of it. I was born a mere 80 years after the end of the Civil War. My great grandmother, who I knew, was alive then. She took my great grandfather out to the territories to treat his tuberculosis. I used to think with …
You are in for a rare treat. In partnership with the Post Carbon Institute I’ve recorded a dozen interviews with cultural scouts on one question for this time of social, environmental, economic upheaval: What could possibly go right? I posted the introduction below on …
Is F.I., S.I. – Socially Intelligent? Against the backdrop of the fire and rage in Minneapolis following the police murder of George Floyd, reminiscent of police beating of Rodney King in LA in 1991, nearly 30 years ago, with many black deaths in between, …
Western civilization seems to be thrashing about like a feverish patient. Will it recover from civilizational decline, or is this the end of the road? Even with the best interventions by the money doctors, it might not return to its old self, patched up and …
For two weeks just as the quarantine descended I recorded 10 minute homilies on my Facebook feed at the end of each day. This is my wind-up one, full of the lessons oozing out of this challenge. In addition to reflections on the world and …
It wasn’t the kind of romantic love that will cause a baby boom in early 2021. Nor was it the cranky love of too much time with your mate of 30 years. It was accidental-quarantine-housemate love, and I’ll bet there will be many stories …
The natives are restless out here in Quarantine USA. I am too. I want to dance with my friends, hug them in public, browse around thrift stores looking for bargains, shoot off my wide open mouth over coffee in a cafe. I want to touch …
In March/ April 2020, as the pandemic raged, I interviewed a dozen colleagues who’ve carried the torch of sustainability for decades – with great passion, vision and persistence. After years of achieving base camps but never summiting the mountain of resistance to a shift in …
