Subject: New podcast with Alastair McIntosh!
New podcast with Alastair McIntosh!
August 2nd, 2024 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, I'm delighted to bring to you this podcast with an old friend and inspirational figure, Alastair McIntosh. I first met him in a Quaker meeting house in Brighton, in southern England, when he was giving a talk on his then-new book, Soil ...
In the midst of change
July 27th, 2024 at 9:00 am EDTHi Friend, Picture this: Krissy and I were co-facilitating the follow-up conversation from our wonderfully full Fourth of July webinar, which looked at some of the indigenous roots of democracy. People were sharing some powerful insights, includin ...
You didn't miss it!
July 12th, 2024 at 9:00 am EDTHi Friend, Last week, on Fourth of July, we offered a webinar looking into the historical origins of democracy and some of its contemporary implications. Over 80 people have registered so far, making this the biggest event that we have hosted by ...
Great People. And now: additional times!
July 2nd, 2024 at 6:02 pm EDTHi Friend, This Fourth of July: engage with super cool people and super valuable ideas/histories and relationships - what a great nexus! One of the classic aspects of the Fourth of July (Besides BBQ, which I'm def a fan of) is spending time with ...
Re-originating American Democracy
June 28th, 2024 at 4:32 pm EDTHi Friend, When confronted with a system/context that feels like it is falling apart/wildly flailing, returning to its origins and trying to see if there is something there that one can draw upon to understand and shift the contemporary moment is ...
Solstice: Blessings, Musings, and Invitations
June 20th, 2024 at 7:53 pm EDTHi Friend, Summer Solstice is upon us! The time when the sun seems to stand still on the horizon got a few days before beginning to bring us towards winter. I hope you are getting some outside time - in the woods, around fires, in a lake, with you ...
Rethinking Freedom and Democracy - 4th of July
June 12th, 2024 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, One of the contemporary symbols of Freedom - and of Summer - in America is the open road. Krissy and I have been doing a lot of driving along open roads and vast open landscapes whilst working in Colorado and New Mexico recently. They ...
Origin Stories...and Democracy
June 5th, 2024 at 12:02 pm EDTHi Friend, Maybe you already know this: stories (always) convey cosmovisions and values. Origin stories are particularly powerful in conveying values and cosmovisions and telling us how we relate to one another. There are so many origin stories! ...
What Does it Mean to Memorialize?
May 27th, 2024 at 8:13 pm EDTHi Friend, After seven years of engaging with ReMembering and Origin Stories and Circular Time and re-narrating the major holidays of the year: only now have I begun to look at the holiday of Memorial Day. This missive pulls together some of the ...
New Podcast! With Dougald Hine
May 21st, 2024 at 4:49 pm EDTHi Friend, I'm delighted to share our new podcast with an old friend, Dougald Hine. The conversation was spurred by questions around education, which (of course) led to a wide range of other things. It's a tremendously rich conversation between tw ...