Six New Things – Week of 08.18.25

It's 'Overwhelm Season' as climate change and political distresses increase and 'regular' life somehow keeps rolling on. Here are offerings of friendship- and resilience-building, hope, love and faith to encourage and sustain through these extra-ordinary…

Moral Mondays

This is far more than a Great Idea. It is the powerful, essential, hopeful example of The Save America Movement and Repairers of the Breach for Moral Mondays. Here's an introductory video. Do we have it in us to follow this example? Do…

Six New Things – Week of August 04, 2025

Historical perspective helps us see how we got where we are. Love - experienced through community, conversation, belonging - will lead us to where we yet might go. ONE For The Bakery Dragon (Random House Children's) a hoard of gold is the…

Lawns 2 Legumes

This Great Idea is 100% from Metro Bloom's Blue Thumb Program, which shared this exciting opportunity to receive grant funds to change yard space into pollinator habitat! 'Lawns to Legumes is a planting for pollinators grant program that…

Book Banning on the Rise

Book Marks is a weekly blog post from Literary Hub, a book review and news outlet. Thanks to Book Marks for sharing the incredibly disturbing data that inspires this Great Ideas reprise. Here's some context: In February, 2025, The Guardian's…