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A zendo in the middle of the Arizona desert.
As a recently laid-off academic becomes more immersed in a sangha, he tries to reconcile his newfound zazen practice with his western background.
Essays Religion 

Your Job and Cancer Are Nothing: Part II

March 10, 2023March 17, 2023 11 min read Donovan Irven Buddhism, Community, Emotional Well-Being, Suffering

As a recently laid-off academic becomes more immersed in a sangha, he tries to reconcile his newfound zazen practice with his western background.

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An artistic depiction of a person harvesting vegetables from a field for community supported agriculture.
Advocates of community supported agriculture believe their radical model addresses many of the problems that plague large-scale farming today.
Essays Society 

Community Supported Agriculture Isn’t Just Another Way to Get Fresh Food

April 11, 2022August 28, 2022 12 min read Jared Spears Agriculture, Climate Change, Community, Localism

Advocates of community supported agriculture believe their radical model addresses many of the problems that plague large-scale farming today.

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Philosophy Danube River Erraticus Zoran Kojcic
(The Danube River near Vukovar, Croatia.)
Essays Philosophy 

Philosophy on the Danube River

October 18, 2020April 28, 2021 14 min read Zoran Kojcic Community

In the aftermath of the Yugoslavian Civil War, a local philosopher uses philosophical practice to inspire personal and communal action.

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All the lonely people atomized generation atomization crisis loneliness erraticus
(Michal Pechardo)
Essays Society 

All the Lonely People: The Atomized Generation

March 11, 2020August 29, 2020 12 min read Willow Liana Atomization, Community, Essential Reading, Place

We’re not only facing a crisis of loneliness but we’re atomized. Our systems seem designed to further undermine social fabric and place.

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The Locking Spine People Crab Erik Mclean Erraticus
(Erik Mclean)
Culture Essays 

The Locking Spine

March 10, 2020May 19, 2021 14 min read Donovan Irven Appalachia, Community, Essential Reading, Family

Eating crab is a fitting tradition for an Appalachian community dealing with the intergenerational trauma connected to the opioid crisis.

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America Needs to Build Strong Towns Not More Infrastructure Erraticus
(Thought Catalog)
Essays Society 

America Needs to Build Strong Towns, Not More Infrastructure

February 17, 2020August 29, 2020 9 min read Jacqueline M. Kory-Westlund Community, Essential Reading, Place, Urbanism

The key to fixing our cities, to creating Strong Towns, is to treat them like complex, emergent systems capable of iterative change.

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“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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