Whenever we face challenges, we have the privilege of framing them in words—words that express our hopes, our losses, our dreams; words that transform our personal vision or the world's. These words can become a source of sustenance and discovery, for the sometimes long work of bringing to birth necessary change.

Why don’t people 'look up'? In other words, why do they almost blindly do things that are counter to their well-being or survival?

Earth care, as it turns out, is really about self-care and other-care. What we design today impacts how we live tomorrow. For better or for worse, it impacts far into upcoming generations.

Writer Lorraine Hansberry has said, 'There is always some- thing left to love.'Similarly, there is always something left for which we can feel gratitude—something to love about our days, despite our occasional brushes with doubt or despair.

Images of both distance and closeness, smallness and vastness, exist in 'North on the Illahee Ferry.' Every life is sustained by both.

What is retained within something, even when it is removed from its ordinary setting or becomes broken?

I don’t want to talk to us about what we can’t do. I want to talk to us about what we can do. And what we can do, if we are going to do it with some level of aplomb and commitment, needs to stem from love...