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Drizzly fall mornings make for good hang-out time with some of my favorite neighbors.
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“Right-mindedness: a mind in place in right relation to Nature and its neighbors.”
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Do you live near South Bend, IN? I’d love to see you at this book event hosted by some really great friends on Sunday evening, November 3.
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My new book is available now! You can purchase Plundered: The Tangled Roots of Racial and Environmental Injustice at your favorite indie bookstore, through the publisher, or at the online behemoth which shall not be named.
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I’m worried about you…”
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A beautiful if blustery Chicago evening for the 15-yr old’s last soccer game of the season.
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There’s a short list of people I needed to personally hand the new book to and Leah, the BEST barber in the world, is on that list!
Plundered is out October 8, but here’s an indie bookshop with copies ready to ship today.
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The craters and seas come clearly into view: Tranquility, Serenity, Crises, and others. The bright white and shadows of grey and black send a shiver across my arms. I’m warm enough in my sweatpants and fleece but chilled by the severity and distance lighting up my eyes through the lenses.
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My new book is out in one month, but the publisher has made the first chapter available for free if you want to take a test drive before purchasing.
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“You can spend forty years teaching people to be awake to the fact of mystery and then some fellow with no more theological sense than a jackrabbit gets himself a radio ministry and all your work is forgotten.”
Rev. John Ames
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We’ve reached that time of day at Warren Dunes when it’s hard to distinguish between the lake and sky.
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Lake Michigan with some impressive waves this afternoon.
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“A people made ignorant by our transience and naive by our consumer-inflected distraction will need to trade the false promises of the exploitative status quo for the gifts and obligations of belonging.”
More about placed belonging in today’s newsletter.
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Race as a severing force, healed by a community’s interdependent relationship with their place- an excerpt from an article I’m working on to coincide with my book’s release.
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In this week’s newsletter, some catchall thoughts about truth-telling that accounts for our complicated emotions and experiences.
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A quick morning hike before packing up the campsite and heading home.
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Spent most of the day hiking, first to this incredible overlook and then through a forest to a secluded beach. The Atlantic and Pacific are great but give me the Great Lakes any day of the week.
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When in the upper peninsula you eat delicious pasties the size of your head.
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In today’s newsletter I’m rethinking my assumptions about the Trump-MAGA movement’s incessant lying. “In this political moment, then, it is our Christian responsibility to seek the truth and, when besieged by deceit, to tell the truth plainly, boldly, and repeatedly.”
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An intense mother-son game of paddle ball at Warren Dunes State Park.
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I began my slow summer read this afternoon.
“Prophecy is the voice that God has lent to the silent agony, a voice to the plundered poor, to the profaned riches of the world. It is a form of living, a crossing point of God and man. God is raging in the prophet’s words.”
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Hard to beat a summertime visit to our local public library.
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Just wrapped up the second day recording the audio version of my new book. One more to go!
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We’re coming to the end of sour cherry season at our local farmers’ market so the morning’s other plans were put on hold to bake this pie. (And these ugly peach hand pies with the leftover dough.)
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The Bobolink Meadow was looking especially cheerful this morning.
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