Perennial Conventions: Tending
Columns Raegan Ballard-Gennrich Columns Raegan Ballard-Gennrich

Perennial Conventions: Tending

I no longer have social media (future article on this to come), but I do watch a lot (too much) of YouTube. And for me, January 1—and earlier, in truth—began the seemingly endless bombardment of New Year-inspired content. Planner updates, journaling tips, weight loss and dieting advice. Mere weeks after winter has begun we’re inundated with peppy people telling us how to get our lives together. I’ve never really bought into this, though I know how easy it is to be swept up into the fervor of goal-setting energy.

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Perennial Conventions: An Invitation
Columns Raegan Ballard-Gennrich Columns Raegan Ballard-Gennrich

Perennial Conventions: An Invitation

As we approach the Winter Solstice, it is an appropriate time to remember the cyclical rhythms that guide our world. These rhythms are constant and the effects they have on us are evident, but in the pursuit of capital and perfect efficiency, we humans have lost the familiarity with the world around us…and I truly believe it is destroying our ability to cope. 

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