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A More Perfect Union: On Patriotism and Climate

A More Perfect Union: On Patriotism and Climate Meeting President Obama before a climate talk At the University of California, Irvine’s Commencement last summer, sitting on the field at Angel Stadium in the baking sun, our kids listened to President Obama describe climate change as the defining challenge of our time.  For our [...]

September 22nd, 2014|Archived Blog|0 Comments

Lessons from Saddleback

Lessons from Saddleback Last August, our San Francisco community bid us farewell as we made our way south, behind what they called the Orange Curtain. We moved to Orange County when my husband joined the faculty at the University of California at Irvine. In making this move, we chose to say yes to Southern California: [...]

April 22nd, 2012|Archived Blog|0 Comments

The Water’s Fine

The Water's Fine   For me, time divided in two twelve years ago. BT and AT: before my partner Terence Freitas was kidnapped and murdered in Colombia, and after. My friendships, projects, and interests from BT that weren't somehow swept along into AT dropped away. I, myself, was caught in the current of grief and [...]

July 6th, 2011|Archived Blog|0 Comments

How to do a seed circle

How to do a seed circle Twenty years ago a teacher shared with me this tool for staying open.  It's called a seed circle.  Some of you have asked how to do one. Here's how and why.Twenty years ago a teacher shared with me this tool for staying open.  It's called a seed circle.  Some [...]

June 30th, 2011|Archived Blog|0 Comments

How do you stay open to change?

How do you stay open to change? How do you stay open to change? When we landed back in San Francisco five years ago, we knew it wouldn't be long before our careers took us somewhere else. I alighted in the city with an air of almost leaving. The work I chose, the friendships I [...]

June 20th, 2011|Archived Blog|0 Comments

Green in Orange

Green in Orange We are moving to Orange County. I feel like a pioneer, venturing forth from San Francisco, the territory ahead uncharted. Will we have to build our own compost bin if the city doesn’t collect food scraps? Will the neighborhood association let us keep a chicken coop? How far will we have to [...]

June 8th, 2011|Archived Blog|0 Comments

As We Poured the Ashes in the River Ganga

As We Poured the Ashes in the River Ganga For the last half century, social change worker Fran Peavey articulated, taught, and practiced what she called ‘heart politics’ in myriad social and environmental movements worldwide. Using the tools of listening, strategic questioning, reflection, and engagement, an effort employing heart politics works on a human scale [...]

March 1st, 2011|Archived Blog|0 Comments

Parting Song

Parting Song Kiran puts his face next to my face, eyelash to eyelash, and asks, Mama, why are you crying? In these times, I have no words for my child. I tried my hand at it once. I said, I am crying because some men poked a hole deep in the earth to get us some [...]

June 15th, 2010|Archived Blog|0 Comments
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