Take small steps

One of the things that happens during moments of crisis is that people look to existing institutions—whether governments, nonprofits, churches, or the like—for guidance on what to do.

A concise primer on the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.

*An Everlasting Meal* is a modern-day *How To Cook A Wolf*—a practical, no-nonsense, and economical approach to cooking that eschews recipes for methods that can be remixed and adapted to whatever is on hand.

First published in 1942 and then heavily amended and republished in 1951, M.F.K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf is part cookbook, part war story, and all great writing.

Writing in Practicing New Worlds, Andrea Ritchie documents a pattern of crisis response that, far from interrupting the crisis, merely serves to lengthen it. I will quote at length here: