by Daniel | Oct 17, 2025 | Awareness, Civil Society, Democracy, Educational Design, Perception, Ukraine, Working with youth
7 June 2025 On Saturday morning we left Kyiv, traveling a couple hours north into the country. It was notable to me that we passed only one apparent military facility; Katya explained to me that the Ukrainian military has very carefully decentralized its operations...
by Daniel | Aug 29, 2025 | Civil Society, Democracy, Educational Design, Perception, Storytelling, Ukraine
Note to Readers: This narrative is quite long, like the cross country train ride where it begins. Mostly it’s just my story, augmented by a few reflections about Ukraine’s political and historical reality. Yet it’s a hefty enough chunk of writing that it warrants...
by Daniel | Jun 3, 2025 | Awareness, Educational Design, Metacrisis, Perception, Teaching
We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate. ~ Ilya Prigogine We are living in times of increasing chaos. However stable our immediate lives may seem, society at large has become widely dysregulated. Things we used...
by Daniel | Jul 19, 2022 | Awareness, Civil Society, Democracy, Educational Design, Metacrisis, Nature, Perception
(this is the second part of a two-part essay; if you haven’t already done so, please read “Where Does It All Lead” to get the most out of this piece.) On a rocky hillside, trowel in hand, I went along the rough trail, eyes searching the ground. Every so often I would...
by Daniel | Jun 30, 2022 | Awareness, Civil Society, Climate Crisis, Democracy, Educational Design, Metacrisis, Nature, Storytelling
Grief – raw and fresh Over the past few weeks, I’ve been meditating on the topic of grief. My heart has been heavy with the fate of those kids in Texas… who will never again collect fireflies. Never go off jumps on their bikes. Never catch snowflakes on their...
by Daniel | Jan 26, 2022 | Civil Society, Democracy, Educational Design, Perception
We are awash in a drumbeat of constant messaging about repeated defeats of progressive legislation – and how Republicans are certain to sweep the fall elections. This narrative, this flood of messaging, is corrosive. It is hard to deny that Congress is beyond...
