I’ve logged more experience than most with simplicity and the complexity you discover inside simplicity, minimalism and asocial behavior, endurance and landscape.
Here is the truth: I think some deep wisdom inside me (a) sensed the stress, (b) was terrified for me, and (c) gave me something new and hard to focus on in order to prevent me from lapsing into a despair coma — and also to keep me from having a jelly jar of wine in my hand.
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The Great Work | David Barsamian Ralph Nader On Taking Back Power From The Corporate State
Readers Write on “Beyond Belief” A ghost in the house, the police at the door, a phone call in a dream
Not So Black And White | Mark Leviton Dorothy Roberts On The Myth Of Race
Guests | Doug Winter A photo essay on the guests of Loaves & Fishes in Sacramento, California
Filling The Void | Jari Chevalier Bruce K. Alexander On How Our Culture Is Making Us Addicted
Our Own Devices | Gianpaolo La Paglia A photo essay on people lost inside their phones
Before It’s Too Late | Mary DeMocker Mary Christina Wood On Avoiding Climate Disaster
Readers Write on “Guests” A mysterious presence, a troupe of anarchists, a nocturnal visitor
We Need To Talk | Amy Amoroso Anne Hallward On Breaking Our Silence And Overcoming Shame
Readers Write on “Being Busy” A family vacation, a secret romance, a refugee’s plight
White Lies | Mark Leviton Ijeoma Oluo On Privilege, Power, And Race
Poetry By Tony Hoagland “Though grudging at first, / he fell like the rain, with his eyes wide open, / willing to change.”
Unfair Advantage | Tracy Frisch Stacy Mitchell On How Amazon Undermines Local Economies
Readers Write on “Men And Women” A teacher’s legacy, a professor’s dilemma, a stranger’s confessions
The Holiness Hidden Within The World | Laura Esther Wolfson Rabbi Rachel Timoner On Rediscovering Judaism
Displaced Persons | Clemens Kalischer A photo essay on European war refugees into the U.S. in 1947 and 1948
Prisoner Of Hope | Judith Hertog Cornel West’s Quest For Justice
Father Figure | Zun Lee A photo essay on black fathers and their children in the Bronx and Harlem
Our Grand Delusion | Corey Fischer Norman Fischer On The Tyranny Of The Self
A Long Life | Raffaele Montepaone A photo essay on the rural people of Calabria, in southern Italy, who live an unusually long time