After many years of planning and exploring, the Radical Gratitude Project is expanding its offerings in 2021. Barbara Ford, in partnership with activist and filmmaker Dawn Smallman, will be solidifying and growing the reach of the project. See our mission…
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Jan 11 2020
Growing the Collection of Poetic Responses to Planetary Emergency
Poetry seems to be stalking me right now. As the news worsens and spreads in the planetary emergency, the only words I can muster at times are those that take this more numinous form. The experience of living in the…
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Dec 10 2019
New Poetry Emerging
I've been accepted as a contributor on Medium.com's Resistance Poetry Collection. Here is a recently published poem.
Be Water
That is the plan in the Hong Kong resistance
Flow through streets, leaderless emergent,
responsive to the moment
impenetrable to infiltrators
…
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Aug 7 2019
The Subversive Power of Gratitude
The train engine moved toward us, a transparent attempt on the part of the rail workers to intimidate the group of us sitting on the tracks. They blew the horn loudly, while the group chanted and waved signs protesting the…
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Mar 7 2019
The Empty Bowl: Creative Explorations of the Numinous
This past year I’ve become obsessed with the idea and image of the empty bowl. Perhaps it’s a natural result of the deep dives I’ve taken in some of my creative endeavors, but it has arrived almost daily in my…
Read moreOct 16 2018
Cultural Artisanship in a Changing World
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell…