We use cookies to improve our services and remember your choices for future visits. For more information see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Independent, Reader-Supported Publishing
Browse Topics
Compassion
The Sun Interview
A Test Of Our Compassion
Louisa Willcox & David Mattson On The Plight Of Grizzly Bears
Do we want a deeper, richer relationship with nature, or do we want to just kill everything and live through our smartphones?
January 2020
Quotations
Sunbeams
December 2019Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
One Nation, Indivisible
December 2019
Featuring Bill McKibben, M.C. Richards, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and more.
December 2019Poetry
Kiss
When Lynne saw the lizard floating / in her mother-in-law’s swimming pool, / she jumped in.
June 2019Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Show Day
The Crandells participated in 4-H the way we did everything: bargain hunting, doing odd jobs, and keeping costs and desires to a minimum.
June 2019
The Dog-Eared Page
Poverty And Precarity
We need always to be thinking and writing about poverty, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.
April 2019
One Nation, Indivisible
March 2019
Featuring Luis Rodríguez, Malidoma Somé, Julia Butterfly Hill, and more.
March 2019The Dog-Eared Page
Handy Tips On How To Behave At The Death Of The World
Eschew blandness. Eschew causing others pain. We are all the target so wear bright colors and dance with those you love.
March 2019
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Reverence
I bow to the pencil, the pencil maker, the tree that gave its wood, the graphite that fills its core, and the mind that conceived pencil. I bow to all the teeth and jaws that have chewed pencils out of boredom or nervousness.
November 2018
Subscribe & SaveSAVE 52%
Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
Subscribe Today