This is a different kind of episode for us; I invited my longtime friend Pidge (we've known each other since 5th grade!) to an experiment: we'd each bring a handful of questions to the table for discussion and exploration. The conversation went longer than we originally anticipated, but we had such a blast! I'm already wondering who I'll invite to the conversation next...

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Enjoy this replay of our May 2025 Monthly Zoom with the Team Ripples Patreon Community (https://www.patreon.com/RipplesGuy for more info)

The notes and links from the session are pasted below.

You can also watch the video replay here.

Intriguing article on Hope vs. Optimism

Slow Hope

Slow Hope post on Instagram:

Slow Hope: Rethinking Ecologies of Crisis and Fear, by Christof Mauch

This 2019 article lays out why and how the author began using the term “slow hope.”

Resilient Hope

You can access 13-minute video and audio summaries of the four pillars of our WE GOT THIS resilience sticker, because it’s still true that WE GOT THIS if we come together with Curious Minds, Open Hearts, and Calm Spirits while we Nurture Health.

WE GOT THIS Sticker: If you'd like a sticker, this Google Doc will give you options for how to get one (for free, if you want!):

Active Hope

Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience & Creative Power, by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone

Three Questions for The Great Turning:

Where and how are you turning up?

What are you turning away from?

What are you turning towards?

Hopeful Stories we didn't get to:

Nearly 40 Years After Chernobyl’s Nuclear Explosion, the Area Is One of Europe’s Biggest Nature Reserves

Violin of Hope

Peace Tree turns 400 years old

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Enjoy this replay of our March 2025 Monthly Zoom with the Team Ripples Patreon Community (https://www.patreon.com/RipplesGuy for more info) We followed our usual format:

pebble (a resource that I've found useful in my work or life)

boulder (and activity I'm using personally or professionally)

ponder (a collection of information and ideas I've been pondering)

The notes and links from the session are pasted below.

You can also watch the video replay here: https://youtu.be/w9q6O6_HW1Y

WARM UP

Just for Now, by Danna Folds

PEBBLE

My Unsung Hero Podcast (via NPR’s Hidden Brain)

Nice News

$100k financial assistance for Olympic & Special Olympic athletes

Owls in Towels

BOULDER

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“Fartleks” — meaning “speed play” in Swedish — are an effective way to add intensity to activities, which a growing body of science indicates can make your workouts more beneficial. Fartleks are an informal version of interval training. To start fartlek training, head outside, warm up for a few minutes at whatever activity you most enjoy — whether it’s walking, running, biking, unicycling or snowshoeing — and then pick a landmark a short distance ahead. It could be a tree, a colorful mailbox or an unusual rock formation. Pick up your pace until you reach it. Then, drop back to your original pace, let your heart rate and breathing slow, and look for another landmark. Vary the distance between these goals, and aim for perhaps 30 minutes of fartleks once a week to start.

PONDER

"Everything is horrific and along side it is hope.

Everything is dark and along side it there is light.

The question becomes, “How do we cultivate a practice of noticing so that we can also speak into existence the things that are going right?”

When we have algorithms that are so tuned towards catastrophe, brains in fact that are so alarmous, such drama queens…

that we forget the practice of noticing beauty.

To rewire my brain and my heart is to speak aloud the things that I find beautiful.

And that gives me hope. There’s such a smorgasbord of beauty around us, and we often feel guilty in naming it, as if that detracts or cancels out the severity of what we’re facing. I don’t think it does. What the universe is always asking us to do is to become bilingual."

~Alok Vaid-Menon, shared by Josh in New Hampshire

lightly edited from these informal remarks

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