An Easter Sermonette
Well, I do declare… I declare that I have to say this for my own dignity, sanity and integrity. I need to say where I stand in this world, even if I feel like a fool saying it, given how the devastating story running …
Category: Social commentary
Not the end of the world after all
What could possibly go right? Now. 2021. Now as the vaccines loosen us up, sending kids to schools and people to work. Now that unemployment is down and the stimmy checks are landing in bank accounts. Now that we’ve collectively wrenched power from the …
Coexistence as the climate changes
As a member of the Deep Adaptation Forum, I was invited to write a post for Jem Bendell’s blog. I’d been reading posts in the Forum various plans to move to the country, buy property, invite people to build an intentional community together, and ride out …
What the climate will change
We talk of “climate change” as if it is a phenomenon out there, not in here. That comfortable lie shattered this year, and this post spills out some of my feelings. If climate change is someone else’s responsibility, we play the blame game, and put …
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
I wake each day to stories of loss, of deceit and of a rabble that’s far too late to the party, clamoring for their piece of the pie. The masters are long gone. The people fight for crumbs, plotting only to line up sooner, …
From despair to repair
I belong to an online climate discussion group that today asked three questions: what is the state of the movement, do we need climate change or system change, and do we need a meta-movement? Keying off the insights from the Earth Repair Conference, I wrote …
Beyond Despair – Global Earth Repair
At the Global Earth Repair Conference May 3-5 I experienced a paradigm shift in the structure of my thinking. I learned a few new things, but mostly it rearranged what I know into a new pattern. Grief about the inevitability of decline, not just of humans …
Allowing ourselves to feel the burn
Consensus is growing. Civilization as we know it is on a death watch. Like so many who stand at the bedside of ones we love, I feel helpless and heartbroken. With all the information we’ve had for decades – all the books/ papers/ websites with …
Do we need a lifeboat, an ark… or a big wave?
For years I and others have worked with great determination to reverse the tide of destruction of natural systems, to catch some great wave of change that will lift all our boats over the great reef of resistance. We’ve launched many boats (projects), and fleets …
Hello, I’m Vicki and I’m a Morality Junkie
There. I said it. In a society where “whatever” is the only safe ground in a sea of fanatic polarization, I confess to loving morality and moral dilemmas. Not the Tab A into Slot B morality of matching actions to credo and taking the safest …