Our Work
writing
“ . . . if we want to change our lives, we have to change our stories, stories that contain the stuff of collective adaptation.” – Joan Halifax
Writing is a tool for radical worldmaking. We write both individually and as a team to critically engage the social structures that separate us from each other and the earth while also connecting ourselves and those who might read our words to the healing power of nature.
The Medicine of Social and Ecological Belonging in Metro Detroit During the Covid-19 Pandemic
I see a benevolent anarchy, an improvised socialism, that softens the entrenched political stances that keep people from seeing each other’s humanity.
Woven Tattered Woven
Under over under | Woven tattered woven | Hope despair hope
Reaping What We Sow in the Garden
My hidden motive was to have them notice and appreciate nature surrounding them as they sketched.
The Mutuality of a Moment
A short essay on mutuality and collaboration in Baltimore, just as COVID-19 was heating up there.
We are especially grateful to Nova Institute for Health of People Places and Planet for the visionary, scholarly and material support that makes this project possible.