Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays
I’m not a person who is political in the usual sense of that word, but I think that we all feel that we’re not enough to make a difference, that we need to be more somehow, wealthier or more educated or otherwise different than the people we are. And according to this story, we are exactly what’s needed. And to just wonder about that a little: what
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In contrast, the improvisational spirit lives inside that gap, and it can be surprisingly full of ingenuity and joy even when the situation is dire. As something we share with our nonhuman brethren, the capacity to form new responses is how you know you’re alive, today, here. So when my mum says, “whatever happens, happens,” what I hear is not resi
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If we manage to shift towards a more and more equitable distribution of the consequences, then we will be able to be in right relationship with each other and the living world upon which we depend. We will reorganize our cultures and cosmologies. We will “remember our way forward.” If you stick your fingers in the soil and you attempt to actually f
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