It’s a powerful short phrase. I reach for it almost daily to escape a doomy, dualistic, miopic worldview, whether my own or that of a new or beloved acquaintance. “And yet!” I say, “in the chaos of the collapse – be it governance, religion or economy – in the collapse of the very structures that led to Earth’s crisis, is promise. Remember,” I say, “the evolutionary process has shown five times before that extinctions are thresholds of emerging ways and forms of being. And yet!” It’s the key...

Exasperated, I turn off the news, “that’s not who I am!” When friends tell me the daily news is wearing them down, I’m thankful for a...

Black Madonna Out of negativity-exhaustion, she calls me to dance in these dark and darker days of storms, droughts, fires, Gaza,...