Advice for transmuting a disaster — 1. A parable, or something When you first notice the cracks, you don’t see anything extraordinary. Walls crack sometimes. That’s how things go. When the first brick falls, you call it an anomaly. You say, that brick was rotten anyway. It alone is at fault for its failure. When it hits the ground, it shatters…

Ordinary people are forging the real solutions to our society’s crises. They deserve our attention. — In a political and economic system where even our most “progressive” leaders offer surface-level solutions to deep, systemic problems, it’s easy to feel hopeless. Most of us are keenly aware, all the way down to our bones, that everything needs to change, yet when we look to our news, our…

All is One, and All Cops Are Getting in the way of that. — I believe in abolishing the police. Part of the reason for this is because I care about social justice and anti-racism. If at this point, you still don’t understand the entrenched racist violence of the American policing apparatus, I don’t know what to tell you anymore. I bet Google does. …

This is what I’m doing differently. — I don’t know what was in retrograde last week, but damn y’all. My week started with 48-hour crippling existential crisis when I couldn’t stop feeling like a total failure in my career nor claw myself myself out of a whirling cesspool of self-loathing. Then I got dumped twice in two…

Even though they won’t fix it. — 71% of the world’s carbon emissions come from only 100 companies, companies over which I (and likely, you) have no decision-making power at all. …

We have a different kind of crisis — one that’s much simpler to solve. — I recently moved to Burlington, Vermont — this state’s biggest city, population: a whopping 42,000 people. Like so many places across the United States, Burlington has found itself in the throes of a serious so-called “housing crisis.” Having spent much of my adult life in places like New York, Seattle…

America’s least favorite Caribbean nation is the model for how to weather a storm. — As of June 1st, the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is underway. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) has predicted this season to be “above-normal,” bringing with it some 6–10 hurricanes and a likely 3–6 major (category 3+) hurricanes. …

My closest friend disappeared in March, without a trace. This is what I have left of her to share with you. — Grief is a fair-weather friend. In the moments of crisis and chaos, it holds back, waiting patiently for the waters to calm so it can clear its throat and say, “Excuse me.…” I’d been wondering when it would knock on my door through all this — knock and present itself…