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.

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

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

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.

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! 

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! 

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.

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

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

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!

What will happen if you go there?

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How the hour of freedom is brought into time.

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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?

Power and openness to complication.

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• 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

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

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