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Hope, Struggle, Dream, Persist: A Mantra for Dark Times
It is the day after Halloween, the Day of the Dead, and the day before my birthday. It is one of the darkest days of the year, and a week from now, when American standard time “falls back,” it will...
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Fighting for Change with Hearts Wide Open
The environmental philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore looks out at the Occupied social landscape and sees “The Big One”–a movement that will bring all the disparate struggles of our society together on...
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Challenging the culture of (white male) entitlement: Come on, Occupy, let’s...
I spent several hours today listening to a friend tell me, with much anger, sadness and frustration, the story of how her marriage of more than 20 years has crumbled. Then I went up to see my son’s...
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Swept away for the holidays? C’mon, Occupy, Let’s Go!
Looking back over the week, it seems like we’ve settled into some kind of holding pattern. The Occupy protests keep spinning, including a jubilant rally in Boston last night, but there is a feeling...
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An Eco-Humynist Manifesto for the 21st Century
Having watched with dismay as the Durban climate talks sputtered to a disappointing conclusion, with all parties knowing that every day that goes by without concerted international effort to address...
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They don’t play nice. Should we?
So manifestoes are all very well, in the visionary department, but things get harder when you get down into the nitty-gritty of making transformative change happen. I thought I might take some time...
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Parents, listen up! You need to know, and you need to act–now.
We raise our children so carefully, so thoughtfully. We make them eat their vegetables, organic if possible. We send them to the best schools we can find and afford. We screen their friends and text...
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Opening to the energy that can change the world
In the course of any given day, I swing from hope to despair and back again at least three or four times. On the one hand, it’s such an amazingly hopeful and alive time in terms of communication and...
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Commencement reflections, 2012
This weekend my first-born son will graduate at age 20 with a B.A. in Biology. He will join thousands of other graduates across the country marching to the dais to accept his hard-earned degree from...
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Floods, drought: the Earth needs us now
I could hardly believe it when I read in the paper today that major floods in Russia have caused nearly 200 deaths this week. Floods? It is bone dry here in the hills of western Massachusetts. It is...
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Time for change
If my blog posts have been a bit few and far between lately, it’s because I’ve been focusing my writing efforts this summer on the bigger project I have underway, the personal/political memoir I’ve...
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R.O.I.—From Mother Earth’s P.O.V.
Peter Buffett, one of billionaire Warren Buffett’s sons, published a brave, thoughtful op-ed piece in the New York Times the other day. In it, Buffett takes to task what he calls “the...
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I have a dream: the 20th century visions of King and Obama and the “fierce...
Fifty years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared his dreams with the American nation: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold...
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Dark Universe, Brightening
Socrates had it right long ago when he acknowledged that to the extent that he was wise, it was because he knew how much he did not know. During my lifetime, the trend has been for homage to be paid to...
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It’s Up to Us Now: Carrying on the Work of Pete Seeger
When I heard the news that Pete Seeger had died, my first thought was “oh no!” and my second thought was “now there goes a man who lived a good life.” At 94, he had accomplished so much and lived so...
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Love is all we need
Most people I know don’t pay a whole lot of attention to Valentine’s Day. In its pop culture guise, it’s pretty trite, after all—candy, flowers, champagne perhaps, aimed at seducing the beloved into...
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21st Century Leadership: On Overcoming Fear and Negativity to Work for a...
This week, coming off the exhilarating high of the 2014 Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, I started teaching a brand-new class at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, “Leadership and Public Speaking for...
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Late Night Thoughts on Love, Loss and the Urgent Need for Action
I had a rough night last night. I went to bed thinking about the April 15 “Blood Moon” lunar eclipse; unfortunately we could not see it here in the Northeast, but we certainly could feel the...
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#LifeMatters: On Die-Ins as a Path to Social Change
Imagine if we didn’t relent, but kept dying and dying and dying, swooning over and over again in public places until those in power were compelled to pay attention?
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Hillary Clinton: Holding the Center in These Complex Transition Times, So We...
We are in the midst of a seismic cultural shift, not just in America but in the world. In Hillary Clinton, we have a leader who will hold the center for us as we do the essential work of social change.
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