Lydia Wylie-Kellermann is an author and activist I’ve admired for a long time, and I’m so happy to share her with you. Her latest book, The Sandbox Revolution, is a collection of essays from parent-activists around the U.S. It offers advice for raising children committed to social justice in the world today. Lydia offers beautiful forwards to each section of the book. When she’s not writing books, Lydia is the editor of Geez magazine, a paper-only publication that comes to your door four times a year with inspiration for living life more simply and justly.
Let’s Boil That Frog
I was recently reminded of the old parable of the frog in a pot of boiling water. The parable goes: If you place a frog directly into a pot of water that is already boiling, the frog will jump right out. If, on the other hand, you place a frog into a pot of room …
Weekend Reading
Have a great weekend, everyone! I'm working on a piece for Jesuits.org (coming soon) on teaching teenagers in a time of existential crisis. I found this article to be really interesting (and devastating) about what the researcher calls "ecological grief." Maybe I'll have my Spiritual Ecology students design grieving rituals for extinct animals and ecosystems …
Molleen Dupree-Dominguez 