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Compassion

One Nation, Indivisible

December 2019

Featuring Bill McKibben, M.C. Richards, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and more.

December 2019
Quotations

Sunbeams

Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

December 2019
Essays, 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.

By Doug Crandell June 2019
Poetry

Kiss

When Lynne saw the lizard floating / in her mother-in-law’s swimming pool, / she jumped in.

By Ellen Bass 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.

By Dorothy Day April 2019
The 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.

By Anne Herbert March 2019
One Nation, Indivisible

March 2019

Featuring Luis Rodríguez, Malidoma Somé, Julia Butterfly Hill, and more.

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.

By Mary Roy November 2018
The Sun Interview

The Holiness Hidden Within The World

Rabbi Rachel Timoner On Rediscovering Judaism

Our God is the God of the widow and the orphan and the stranger, a God who says, “If you harm them, their cries will reach me.”

By Laura Esther Wolfson October 2018