To Do Life’s Dance Together

This morning there was spring light, a soft breeze, new leaves in their easy shimmy. So much green. I needed the full-body reminder: Life is dancing even as madmen rain down their madness.

It is so much to hold it all. And yet holding it all is what we’re called to do.

In just a few days, I will take to the road with a book that’s designed to help us do just that—to grow our capacity to orient amid swift currents and navigate toward being of use. The world is aching for our caring, curious, courageous leadership. It’s aching for us to do life’s dance together.

Together is what I hope these next weeks will hold, and it would mean the world to me to see y’all along the way. These will be beautiful, enlivening events and a welcome chance to be in community.

You can find a full line-up here, including some online options: climatewayfinding.earth/events. But let me give y’all some quick links…

April 12 • Chattahoochee Hills, GA • Serenbe (with Whit Bolster)

April 14 • Washington, DC • American University

April 16 • Seattle, WA • Seattle Public Library

April 19 • San Francisco, CA • Manny’s (with Jane Hirshfield!)

April 20 • San Francisco, CA • Commonwealth Club

April 22 • Santa Cruz, CA • Poetry on the Wharf (with Ellen Bass!)

April 23 • San Francisco, CA • The Melody (with Project Drawdown)

April 25 • Boston, MA • Museum of Science

April 30 • Saint Paul, MN • Bell Museum

May 1 • New York, NY • PEN World Voices Festival (with Bill McKibben)

May 4 • Atlanta, GA • Jimmy Carter Presidential Library (a special hometown book launch)

May 5 • New York, NY • Cooper Union (with the Climate Museum)

May 7 • Bedford, NY • Bedford Playhouse

May 14 • Boulder, CO • Boulder Library (with Megha Sood)

May 16 • Portland, OR • Powell’s Books (with John D. Sutter)

May 20 • Asheville, NC • Malaprop’s Bookstore (with Mallory McDuff)

As I write in Climate Wayfinding, “When facing a planetary crisis, as with a personal one, it’s best not to go it alone.” It’s also so much more joyful to go it together.

See you soon, friends!

P.S. The wonderful Bookshop.org is offering 15% off preorders + a limited edition art print. If that sings for you, use code Climate15 at checkout.