On the Trail of Tears, we walked from one history into more difficult times, and by the time we reached Indian Territory, Oklahoma, none of our ponies remained.
Wall Street is bankrupt. Instead of trying to save it, we can build a new economy that puts money and business in the service of people and the planet鈥攏ot the other way around.
Niceness is often filled with falseness鈥攊t is a way to not tell the truth, or to obscure it. 鈥淏e nice!鈥 is something many of us heard as children as a way of avoiding upsetting someone鈥 it鈥檚 not effective in the long run as a way to come together to solve the myriad difficulties facing our communities, both local and global.
Over the past decade, a growing network of practitioners across Appalachia have chosen to live with horses in a utilitarian way. They are using horse power to practice 鈥渞estorative forestry.鈥
In the face of global warming it is hard to escape a sense of outrage, fear, despair. Author, deep-ecologist, and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy says that speaking the truth of our anguish for the world brings down the walls between us, drawing us into deep solidarity.