how to practice sustainable activism
I was 10 years old when I began my life as an activist. In my small Wisconsin hometown, a group of us kids painted oil drums bright co echo turn off the kitchen lors. Helpful adults arranged for them to be scattered around downtown so that people could use them as...
what calls you to take compassionate action?
What if we saw privilege as an invitation to make the world a better place? When Chef Asma Khan was a young girl growing up in India, her father took her to the ruins of the ancestral palace. From there, they could see the remains of the surrounding slums. “It was an...
What changes do you want to see in the world?
This month, I am working with the kind promise “I will advocate courageously.” I was raised to believe in advocacy. If you saw an unjust system, you joined with others to work to make things right. For example, when I was a kid, I was not allowed to eat grapes. My...
Finding the whimsy in seasons of change.
Sometimes, you invite change into your life. For example, you get a new job, create a new relationship, move from one place to another. Other times, change crashes down on you, unbidden. You become ill or you are laid off or someone dies or there is fire or flood or...
journaling through change
This month, I am working with the kind promise “I will reinvent whimsically.” I am asking what changes I want or need to make in my life. What would I like to do differently? I see a physiatrist once a year. (Think “rehab doctor.”) She asks me “what’s bugging you?”...
Asking for help is an opportunity to build connection
When I was a kid and sick with the flu or an ear infection, my mom would bring me a pitcher of orange juice and a glass and leave me for the morning. “I want to see that gone by the time I get back,” she’d say. (To be clear, she was just downstairs and within...
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