Collective Liberation

A reflection on markets, policy and culture as the three prongs for social change

photo credit: Hannah Renglich

Rethinking Community

A reflection on the dangers of thinking of community as as if it were solely based on a common identity or interest that somehow transcends being place-based. We are meant to be together in our whole humanness - and in doing so, brushing up against the humanity of each other and forming the bonds of Radical Love and Care.

photo credit: Adil Dhalla

Reconstituting a New Worldview (after Israel broke my old one)

A reflection on living in the digital era where atrocity is broadcast and can unknowingly be consumed voyeuristically as content

Plus some thoughts on how to metabolize grief and stay grounded in hope.

How We Gather

A report by Casper ter Kuile and Angie Thurston from Harvard Divinity School chronicling how millennials leaving religious affiliation are finding new forms of meaning-making and community.

These are some smart, kind and thoughtful people whose writing I really appreciate, learn from and recommend.

Liane Daiter - occupational therapist, psychotherapist and somatic practitioner who publishes Be Softer With You substack on the nuances of mental health.

Negin Sairafi - founder, writer, innovator, storyteller, and futurist who writes Metaformative, a substack for curious and ambitious people building things that matter—companies, movements, products, careers, and creative work and the signals and patterns that are asking for out attention.

Hima Batavia - artist, writer, community designer and futures thinker who writes the substack The Auntyverse on topics which include pop culture and pop-psych, existentialism tech and no tech, art and creative process, cities and urban life, post-capitalism, progressive politics, ethics, community care, inner life, friendship, relationships, domestic life and going into silence at 50.

Courtney Martin - The Examined Family, a substack for people who get all twisted up inside about the brokenness of the world, and wonder how to actually live in it, loving and humble, but brave as hell.

The former U.S. Surgeon General released a Parting Prescription for America naming disconnection and isolation as a public health emergency—conditions produced and maintained by systems that profit from division.

The current administration scrubbed the document from the National Institutes of Health website -

Here is a scanned PDF of the scrubbed document (includes my notes)

One excerpt cuts to the heart of it:

"Today, we are faced with a profound choice. Do we continue with the status quo, marked by pain, disconnection, and division? Or do we choose a different path--one of joy, health, and fulfillment where we turn toward each other instead of away from each other, where we choose love over fear, where we recognize community as the irreplaceable foundation for our well being?"