Last month, Malka and I jumped on a couple of civity opportunities to be in conversation with people different from us. We both participated in the StoryCorps Connect250 invitation to record a …
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We swim in the water of the systems we’re in. And because we’re used to this water—these systems—they come to be invisible and sometimes appear inevitable to us. The water …
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Malka and I recently had the honor of participating in a meeting at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The occasion was the wrapping up of Our Common Purpose …
When I hear the same thing from multiple sources and in multiple ways, I pay attention. This kind of synchronicity means that something big is happening and that lots of …
As many of you know, the Civity team submitted an intervention in the Stanford-based Strengthening Democracy Challenge back in 2021. The Challenge was to test whether online interventions of eight minutes or …
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As 2025 draws to a close, I find myself thinking of prairie grass. Those of you who have attended one of our workshops know that we offer the image of …
This is a fun title for a serious blog. I hear a lot – all of us hear a lot – about the prevalence of Us-vs-Them dynamics. We as a …
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I recently spent a week with family in the Town of Ashland, Oregon. Ashland lies at the very southern end of the state, nestled between the Siskiyou and Cascade Mountain …
For a long time, I’ve been drawn to mosaics. I remember making a mosaic as an art project when I was a Camp Fire Girl – pushing tiny smooth stones …
At the end of September, I drove up to Lake Superior for a long weekend. The Ojibway/Anishinaabe, who lived in the region long before Europeans arrived, call it Gichigami. It is monumental, the …
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