SANDY CHAPIN WISHES TO SHARE HER THOUGHTS
By Pegge Strella

04/02/2025
"As long as there is humanity, there will be challenges to who we are and how we are seeing. As long as we are willing to be aggressive storytellers, as long as we are willing to write that next chapter... we can keep fighting for good, fighting for better and fighting for one another."
Stacey Abrams
03/31/2025
"One of the reasons we're lonely is that we've cut ourselves off from the non-human world and have called this progress. Numerous encounters in nature are moments of reconnection, part of the human search for reciprocal love."
Barry Lopez, author
03/10/2025
"We don't know what will happen, but we know this: Even the bitterest winter doesn't last forever. Spring is coming."
Margaret Renkl
03/04/2025
"Recognizing that we maintain agency fuels hope, and maintaining hope reminds that we have agency. Resilience comes down to a few core factors; leaning into community, being kind to yourself...allowing yourself to feel sadness and loss and yet maintain hope at the same time. It requires a commitment to taking productive action."
Brad Stulberg, author
02/25/2025
"In this moment, is it still possible to face the gathering darkness and say to the physical earth, and to all its creatures, including ourselves, fiercely and with out embarrassment, I love you, and to embrace fearlessly the burning world."
Barry Lopez