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A Red and a Blue Walk Into a Climate Change Workshop…

May 6, 2021 / Davia Rivka / Inspiration in Action / 12 Comments
Photo by Wolfgang Hasselman Photo by Wolfgang Hasselman

My partner, a conservative African-American Evangelical Baptist pastor from Kansas said to me, “There is a misperception that Republicans don’t care about the environment. That isn’t true.”

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The Weight of Hope

October 3, 2019 / Davia Rivka / Kids and Young People, Spiritual Ecology / 16 Comments

I wanted to wrap that young girl in my arms, hold her tight against so much uncertainty and destruction. But there was nothing I could think to say to soothe her soul, nothing that wasn’t a lie.

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Take Two. I’m Re-imagining.

April 8, 2019 / Davia Rivka / Inspiration in Action / 15 Comments

I got lonely on my soapbox, like I was some kind of super hero, my cape flapping in the breeze. The moniker, Climate Change Warrior, started to weigh on me. It felt  aggressive and combative.

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I’m Resigning

March 17, 2019 / Davia Rivka / Spiritual Ecology / 45 Comments
Photo: Sarah Reynolds

I’m resigning. I don’t want to be a climate change warrior anymore. I’m inclined to blame my change of heart on my sister’s death. It would be easy enough to do.

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She’s Alive and (not so) Well

January 7, 2019 / Davia Rivka / Inspiration in Action / 34 Comments
Eliana drinking in the sun

At the end of October, my sister Eliana was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The surgeon met me in the recovery room post biopsy, took my hand, looked into my eyes and said…

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Recent Posts

  • A Red and a Blue Walk Into a Climate Change Workshop… May 6, 2021
  • I’m such a hypocrite December 14, 2020
  • I Have Work To Do August 17, 2020
  • The Shape of Climate Grief December 6, 2019
  • The Weight of Hope October 3, 2019
  • I Almost Blew It* July 15, 2019
  • Power of the Word May 13, 2019

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