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Why You Don't Get to Give Up

Care, work, ethics, justice, kindness, and the long haul.


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I write summaries for people who have to carefully marshal their time and attention.

#66
June 10, 2025
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Emergence and Emergencies

And how to be within both.


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  • An Earth Day message for my city

  • Webs of life in San Jose

  • Raising money for a resilience hub

#65
April 26, 2025
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What the Birds are Saying

Content warning: A couple of good days.


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I write summaries for people who have to carefully marshal their energy and attention. 

#64
March 11, 2025
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Water Is Like Water

What can you learn from your material self about insistence and refusal?


Gratitude to Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Sabrina Imbler, Anne Boyer, and Kendra Pierre-Louis for ideas and principles that seeped into this writing. 

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I write summaries for people who have to carefully marshal their energy and attention. 

#63
February 20, 2025
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Artificial Horizon

Local gal looks up.



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#62
February 4, 2025
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The Mayor of Anywhere

With gratitude to my friends, my sisters, and my current teacher and fellow learners.



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  • Some things to do for people at various distances from the LA fires

  • What I’d do if I were the mayor of LA 

  • Some thoughts on multisolving (and Multisolving)

  • Why I’m reconsidering my position on time travel

#61
January 16, 2025
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Seems to Me You Live Your Life Like a Candle in the Sink

By you I mean me.


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#60
December 26, 2024
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What to Do in the Next Few Days

Besides what you were going to do anyway.


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I write summaries for readers who have to marshal their effort and attention.

#59
November 1, 2024
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"Even This Guy"

I don’t have a slogan or a campaign to put it in, but if I did, here’s what it might be.


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I write summaries for people who have to marshal their time and attention. 

  • First, an event

  • More about Bonita Eloise Ford, who’s doing the event with me 

  • Meg Ruttan, “renoviction,” climate, and housing 

  • “Even This Guy 2025” 

  • A bill/ballot measure/policy exercise

#58
October 21, 2024
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Half Life

How long does it take to become less than what you were? How long does it take to become more than what you are?


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  • Grief for the people of Palestine, rage for the role of the country I live in

  • Defining “we”: it’s important

  • Holding back from doing what’s right because of fear

  • Small learning and small actions that make room: how important are they?

  • Three small actions, anyway

#57
October 16, 2024
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Flooding in the Mountains

What to begin to do in the long aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

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I write summaries for people who have to marshal their effort and attention.

#56
September 30, 2024
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Between the Lines

On forethought of grief.


BUT FIRST, SOME EVENTS

Monday, September 23, 6-8:30pm, Hunter College Main Lobby (68th & Lexington), NYC: For NYC Climate Week,  I’ll be staffing the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth to support a playthrough of Energetic. I think this will be fun! 

#55
September 11, 2024
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The Great Plaza Flood

You’re American when you come out of the bathroom. Also, the bathroom is American, and so is the building the bathroom is in. 


BUT FIRST, SOME EVENTS

From anywhere: Please join me for a VIRTUAL event on September 5, 7-8pm, with the Cary Memorial Library and Lexington Climate Action Network. Free to attend! Register here! 

#54
August 21, 2024
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Route Work

The body is fragile—it’s a wonder anything ever goes right—and so are the systems that, however imperfectly, sustain it.


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I write summaries for people who need to carefully marshal their time and attention.

#53
July 15, 2024
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Hot Girl Charcuterie

For three days, it’s been too hot to eat anything but small piles of foods straight out of a fridge I’m lucky to have. 



I’m working on an actual essay for you about care networks and extreme heat, but in the meantime, have a sampler of different flavors and textures with minimal cooking time.  

No summary for this one because the descriptions are the content, more or less.


INVITE ME

#52
June 20, 2024
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Cities and Limits

What does the city comprehend?

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I write summaries for people who have to carefully marshal their effort or attention.

  • Where’s Kate? Two interviews and a benefit

  • The mutability (or lack thereof) of borders

  • The comprehensiveness (or lack thereof) of city planning

  • One exercise from the book and one from the city government, sort of

#51
June 11, 2024
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Upcoming Events and Lots of 'Em

Plus some conversations, and a question and practice for when you realize your failure to take a wider view is hurting you or someone else.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Sunday, 5/26, 4-5:30pm: Join me and Ana Duque at The Heal Room in East Providence to do a sequence of exercises from my book together. We’ll practice getting grounded, directing our climate rage, and assessing how our skills, capacity, and even enjoyment apply to the climate and environmental needs of our communities. REGISTER HERE!

#50
May 23, 2024
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Imagination, Revisited: Beyond Anxiety

What will happen if you go there?

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#49
May 13, 2024
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Forty Pounds of Party Lights

How the hour of freedom is brought into time.

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#48
May 4, 2024
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Book Day

You are here and so is my book. 


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- My book is out; set up a reading! Do your own counseling booth! Leave me a review?

#47
April 9, 2024
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Climate Anxiety Counseling at River City Pride

Power and openness to complication.


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I write summaries for people who have to carefully marshal their effort or attention.

  • My book is coming out on April 9!

  • How I met Debbie Chang of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby (and how she met me)

  • Debbie’s story of staffing a Climate Anxiety Counseling booth at River City Pride in Decatur, Alabama

  • The complicated ways that different kinds of power and organizing interact in their working, their falling short

  • An exercise for revisiting your assumptions about that

#46
April 3, 2024
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Thinking About Dancing but Not Yet Dancing

A climate and community workshop at the local library, and what I wish we’d done differently.


SUMMARY 

I write summaries for people who have to carefully marshal their effort or attention. 


-Running a workshop with the stated goal of identifying community abundance

#45
March 21, 2024
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