Moving Toward Justice
Unearned white privilege (a blog post for other white people)
September 16, 2020 By Ranae Hanson

Racial justice is essential to climate justice. Ecological activists wonder sometimes why we don’t revolt more strongly against impending climate disaster. It may be that our privilege as white people enables us to feel distant from the climate trauma already devastating many people of color, locally and globally. To look at the privileges that distance […]

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Book Suggestions
Book Report #1: Why I Think You Should Read “The Lakota Way”
February 3, 2021 By Ranae Hanson

Enter Joseph M. Marshall III’s  book, The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living, to learn how to live wisely with all our relatives – with mitakuye oyasin (“all my relatives” in Dakota). Each chapter of the book presents a virtue through story-telling, some stories from the beginnings of remembered life and some from Marshalls’s […]

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Body Care
The Old People’s Friend
April 1, 2020 By Ranae Hanson

As she neared her 90th birthday, my mother began telling us that, in her youth, pneumonia had been called “the old people’s friend.” This friend took them, somewhat gently, over the hill. “I’ve lived long enough,” she’d say. “It’s time for me to go.” Though she had constant joint and nerve pain from a life […]

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Body Care
Feeling for the ground beneath our feet
March 3, 2020 By Ranae Hanson

We are rocking in our body boats as we adapt to the realities (and unrealities) of COVID-19. In counterpoint, the natural world around us breaths more freely when we humans stop skittering about. Canals in Venice flow clear; the sky over Hunan clears; airplane and car noise decreases. Our hearts rush to those who are […]

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