Medium Short: Cracking

Cracking on, cracking up, or something else? You be the judge.

Bleachers at the soccer fields along the St. Lawrence River near my home. It has cracks. (Photo by me.)

Welcome to the latest Medium Short, an accountability practice to keep me semi-tethered along the unmarked trail of industrial healing. Published weekly every Friday, I introduced the idea here, full list here. I also make all of my articles (including those linked below) freely available with this unglamorous searchable table of contents.

Shining light through the cracks

It’s been a dizzying week of sorts, and not just from the concussion although that continues to be an excellent teaching instrument in terms of prioritizing, as well as human biology.

The other dizziness comes from the stuff coming up within, and coming at me from without. I’m doing my darndest to shine enough light on it so that mere human brains — even my own — can make sense of it. As ever, I hope this lighting is useful in some way to anyone else out there trying not to step on too many cracks.

Following are some of the week’s more crackly bits…

An offering to the climate movement (or a walk in the park)

In prep for Climate week, which is wrapping up in New York as I type, I offered this 5-point briefing. It’s an…