Live Like the World Is Dying
It’s a bittersweet challenge these days to figure out, much less practice, what it means to “live like the world is dying.” After nearly three pandemic years, given how much … Continue reading
Hanukkah 5783: Ritual as Resistance
NIGHT 1 There’s nary a Jewish holiday or ritual that isn’t about sorrow as well as joy. They are as inseparable as the braids in a challah loaf or havdallah … Continue reading
Recording of Beautiful “Try Anarchism for Life” Event Hosted by Firestorm Books
For those who missed @firestormcoop’s lovely offering of (cyber)space for a celebration of my new book, Try Anarchism for Life (@tangled_wilderness), here’s the video for your leisurely viewing. What I … Continue reading
Six Cheers for “Try Anarchism for Life”
By way of celebrating my new book “Try Anarchism for Life: The Beauty of Our Circle” being in print and out in the world, and because I have a backlog … Continue reading
Firestorm Books: Recording of “Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists” Book Event
To celebrate the release of a new collection of contemporary essays, art, and poetry by Jewish anarchists, Firestorm Books kindly hosted a conversation on April 15, 2021 (or 5781 if … Continue reading
Nourishing Resistance
May I be so “forward” as to say how proud I am of my friend, and writer-editor-baker and caring human being extraordinaire, @wrenawry for publishing their first book—an amazing edited … Continue reading
Reviving Grief Rituals, Honoring Our Dead
Grief rituals, one could argue, are part of the essential grounding for millennia-old cultures that orient toward far more ecological relations with the whole of this earth, including each other. … Continue reading
Our Sacred Spaces in Their Unsafe World
There are no safe spaces. But there are sacred spaces. At this moment in history, like other particularly brutal epochs, there is no separating that sacredness from the unsafeness. That’s … Continue reading
Defending the Trees, Mourning Our Dead
On my #FuckThePolice walks, I visit with a small forest of trees perched on a hilly embankment on Anishinabeeg lands above a river flowing from one side of so-called Michigan … Continue reading
Rainbows in the Rubble
Truth be told, it’s been hard to get out of bed this winter. More pointedly, it feels hard to find reasons to get out of bed. Some call that depression, … Continue reading
Not My New Year
Not my New Years. Not this date established by a dictator, Julius Caesar, and his empire, then reaffirmed by the Papal State, and now upheld by capital and its food+alcohol … Continue reading
I Saw Someone Die Today
I saw someone die today. It was toward the end of an hourlong walk that I had to force myself to do because it’s so bitterly cold and dismal outside. … Continue reading
Outside the Circle 