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There is a grief that lives beneath the surface of ordinary days. You feel it when you read the wildfire report and put your phone down a little too quickly. When you notice the absence of bees in a garden that used to hum. When a child asks you what the future will look like and something in you goes very still. This grief has many names. Climate anxiety. Eco-distress. Ecological overwhelm. But underneath all the names is something simpler, something the body already knows:

Emmanuel pressed his finger into a bullet wound on his head, recounting the massacre at Murambi Technical School,

In November 2005, Ovidio—a psychiatrist, Zen practitioner, and long-time social activist—joined the Zen Peacemakers' retreat at Auschwitz.

These are reports I sent out (by email from the Public Library) during the Zen Peacemaker Community Street Retreat I led this past week....