Tim Bennett and I have just returned home from two screening tours of What A Way To Go. We toured 13 communities in the Northeast during August and 23 communities in the West and Midwest during October and early November. I’ve now got a finger on the pulse of current levels of […]
Continue reading...People write us the most amazing things.
I’ve thought about starting a “Dear Sally” column where some of what people write can be shared with others. It might give courage and inspiration. I’m tempted to jump into this because it would be fun and inspiring for me too. But right now I just […]
I woke up afraid. I recalled a dream in which I saw myself acting in a way that could be labeled “hysterical.” I woke up feeling ashamed and humiliated, afraid of being labeled overemotional, dramatic, maudlin.
Of course I’m afraid of that. It is rare in this culture that the […]
All of us who are looking squarely at the global situation face this challenge: How do we find our essence, individual and collective, in the face of collapse? The collapse of life as we know it. The collapse of our ego identities that have been tied to our stuff, our jobs, our comforts, our diversions, our privileged lifestyles.
It’s time we let go of the shore of our well-groomed ego identities, of this Culture, as Derrick Jensen calls it, of Make Believe, to move into the middle of this fast flowing and amazing time. It’s time to let go and celebrate those we find in there with us.
What a way to go.
Continue reading...What A Way to Go may not make much money because “Collapse doesn’t sell. ”
More than one supporter has told us this. We want to be paid something, of course, for the monumental amount work we’ve put in, and continue to put in, to this movie. I don’t have fear about […]