#MultisolvingMonday is a chance for some radical imagination today. "We are embedded in complex systems. We don't have any choice about that. Complexity & interconnection are features of our world. What might be possible if more us, and more of our leaders & organizations, embraced that complexity?"

If America is to ever be great it will be because of the brave of us who fight, march, protest, boycott and demand that liberty and justice finally be for all. Thank you to all who are leading us out of the terrifying wilderness and into a promised land.

I talked with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social about hope, backlash, political memory, and how history can help us understand our own power.

The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wave after wave of pink blossoms and every one an absolute delight 🌸✨.

You may have seen Madeleine Jubilee Saito's beautiful work in All That We Can Save and her own You Are a Sacred Place. An artist whose pathos infuses each mark, Madeleine will talk with us about art and resistance on Wednesday, May 20, at 7:00-8:30pm ET.

Great online/free opportunity to hear from the wonderful Katharine Wilkinson on her new book Climate Wayfinding — bound to be soulful, expansive, rooting 5 PM UK, 12 PM ET, 9 AM PT events.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholars-lib...

Filled to the brim with beauty with a spontaneous pop into a local nursery today. Earth hums with presence.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Southern states wasting no time following last week's SCOTUS 6-3 ruling that eviscerated remaining protections against racial gerrymandering. @staceyabrams.com on @allinwithchris.bsky.social explains what this means for Black & brown voters and ALL Americans.

“Cities could become hubs for freshwater restoration and recovery, rather than hotspots of decline. They can become places where rivers, wetlands and people thrive together – with benefits that flow far beyond city boundaries.”

So grateful for a wealth of book portals to bring us into deep interconnected presence with the living earth, our belonging to the more-than-human world and a sense of reverence and responsiveness. These six are some of my favorites and most read ❤️‍🔥.

Another series of favorites. This Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations series is really powerful. And of course the brilliance of Joanna Macy and Bill Plotkin in re-imagining psyche through embeddedness in Earth-body.

Deep earth time feels really vital to root in right now.

My words for this time. With the solace of art by Rachel Hayes.

Morning balm for this time of great loss and trouble. Weaving between beauty and grief, contemplation and action often these days.

“The measure of our humanity is not found in isolation but in relationship. Not in dominance but in solidarity. Not in our ability to other & objectify, but in our courage to recognize that ‘humans are not the enemy’. It's the suffering from delusion, fear, & hatred that takes over & possesses us.”

Beautiful questions for us all at an upcoming nourishing gathering.

Wave after wave of pink blossoms and every one an absolute delight 🌸✨.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.

So much wisdom always from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 I resonate, this feels like one of her most insightful, clear-eyed and wide angle pieces of the past year —and that is saying a lot!

Protect.

Oh these emotive connected humans reminding us of all the best of us… And these wonderful words from beloved Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

This feels like a meditation and an expanse of joy that shows us who we are and all we can be.

This feels like a meditation and an expanse of joy that shows us who we are and all we can be.

This is such a deep, incredible celebration, so many people have worked and dreamed and persevere to get here and it’s such good fuel for all of us who are needing to see what’s possible!

Oh these emotive connected humans reminding us of all the best of us… And these wonderful words from beloved Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

Can’t stop reading the Artemis II wonderful tender, brave, loving humans’ words…

So, if you're not sure what to do, but you're not willing to give up, if you're still thinking and trying—if you're willing to take a stranger by the hand, to try to make some hope—just know I'm here with you. I think a lot of us are, even if it feels lonely where you are right now.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Every Senator should be saying this, grateful for my Oregon voices @jeff-merkley.bsky.social and @wyden.senate.gov

Speak up with everything you can for the precious people of Iran and this earth. Here’s some words to use —-and info at link for your numbers to call. 5calls.org

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You will never regret speaking out against this—- in fact, make sure you say it everywhere. Flood our representatives offices with our cries, we will not stand for this. Be life fighting to protect life. Go to @5calls.org for your reps contact info.

The news covers the destruction. Nobody covers the building. Right now someone is saving seeds, organizing a food bank, printing a reef, restoring soil, defending a river. Millions of quiet acts that never become a headline. The planet is regenerating. It does it below the threshold of attention.

April’s ways

Still so captivated by the playful power and potent symbolism of what felt like a phoenix bird leading the way at Berkeley CA #NoKings Saturday 🐦‍🔥❤️‍🔥✨

So looking forward to this wonderful Climate Wayfinding book and tour with @kkwilkinson.bsky.social this spring. May 16th in Portland @powells.bsky.social! More cities/dates here: www.climatewayfinding.earth/events

Still so captivated by the playful power and potent symbolism of what felt like a phoenix bird leading the way at Berkeley CA #NoKings Saturday 🐦‍🔥❤️‍🔥✨

So vitalizing to see deep earth beauty, and portal visions.

Be brave. Be curious. Keep going.

Our motives and actions mold our futures, living and acting with compassionate insight brings wellbeing now and into the future, www.compassmethods.com. youtube.com/@compassions... #seeds

At least 8 million people turned out at more than 3,300 'No Kings' protests across all 50 states Saturday, according to the No Kings Coalition.
 Organizers say protests Saturday were the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history.

So excited for this wondrous book, @scrawfordobrien.bsky.social! Already even the cover gives me such a deep sense of beauty, meaning, and loving resilience.

Rebecca Solnit always, here’s to fierce loving clarity and courage ❤️‍🔥

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Oh my, just started reading this book and I’m already so deeply enchanted and expanded. What a beautifully timely book on our relationship to the Earth —- how ecological language cosmologies, and lyrical imagination can deepen our interconnection and presence. Anyone else read this or hoping to?

Ancient magnolia, kin of the buttercup, evening beauty balm.

In other news, I’m in Norway and this is what the sky looks like