I am offering an email correspondence course to paid subscribers of this newsletter called A Course in Courage.

Flash essays (very short), usually with a practice, will be delivered weekly for the next six months or so.

I start from the premise that a world free of oppression, violence, war, and environmental and social injustice is not a distant utopia. It is buildable — now — by courageous people—by people willing to study courage, willing to take action, willing to give peace the same rigor we’ve given war and oppression.

Here is where we study courage. Here is ground where courage lives.

What can you get from this work?

• ways to find courage

• ideas about personal power & creative empowerment

• small studies that build your creative practice of peace

• thoughts on how to take action, even or especially when the activism is the community you tend, the thing you make, the story you write

• a happier, more embodied, more courageous life

Perhaps the essays will become something worth binding, a book.

To receive A Course in Courage, you will need to be a subscriber at the paying level, which is $33/year. If you are already a paying subscriber, do nothing. I’ll send A Course in Courage to you.

And so, our course in courage, peace, and creative empowerment begins.

My unlearning began in college.

WHEN I LEFT THE JUNKYARD where I was raised and the conservative atmosphere of my deeply religious childhood home, I was lucky enough to find people who helped me unlearn many things.

I went off to a little Appalachian mountain college. There, in a local flora class, I met a woman named Dottie. Over trailing arbutus and S…

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