by Aya de Leon | Aug 3, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
As a mom, I always have a backup plan. An additional snack in my purse. A spare kid’s bike helmet in my car. An extra hair elastic around my wrist. If Moms ran the world, I believe things would be going much better. I have never been a huge fan of the nation’s...
by Elizabeth Stark | Jul 30, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
I’ve spent a lot of time learning how to feel. I remember a therapist saying, Where in your body do you feel that? And I remember thinking, feel? Body? Where? What was he talking about? I remember going to a workshop in my yoga teacher’s apartment in New York and the...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Jul 29, 2020 | Personal Essays
Namwali Serpell’s exploration of climate catastrophe on the Zambesi River Serpell says: “When we talk about climate change, we talk about our inability to predict and control what’s coming, to step into the same river twice. We’re out of time, in...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Jul 22, 2020 | Personal Essays, Uncategorized
Hope, Action, and Consequence, July 22, 2020By Vijaya NagarajanIt is difficult to imagine how our microactions intertwine with the macro-actions of the day, of how each drop of an action we personally do adds up to the active, bubbling creeks of collective actions,...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Jul 15, 2020 | Personal Essays, Uncategorized
071520 The Commons of Public Trust and Climate By Vijaya NagarajanJust this past Sunday, on July 12, Huey Johnson passed away. Huey Johnson was one of the greatest environmental activists and defenders of the commons in California during the past 50 years. He saved...
by Aya de Leon | Jul 13, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
Earlier this year, I saw that a local organization had an all-white climate panel. I had some connections to that organization, so I got the organizer’s info and sent her an email. You will not be surprised to learn that she is a white woman. Here’s what I...
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