The way we tell this story is by living it.
Last week my friend Madeline Charney (we met sitting on adjacent meditation cushions) wrote me to appreciate an idea she had read about in this letter. At the bottom of her email signature she included this note: "Where my head and heart are right now. Take a 3-minute break and watch 'Living Into Being' by Joe Brewer." I did, Madeleine. What a beautifully centering frame. Thank you.
"I think we've been given a false choice between the story of hope and the story of doom. The false choice is that they're both true.
"I study language, and I study culture, and I try to help people create strategies around the stories that they tell. And one of the things that I learned in the early days of trying to communicate about climate change, was that reframing climate change required us to not talk about climate change, and instead we need to talk about what it means to be human, and we need to talk about how economies work."...
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