The Emergency Has a Name
We keep treating loneliness as burnout, disorder, polarization, addiction, and decline because naming it directly would force us to admit how thoroughly we have dismantled the ordinary places people learn they matter.
Americans Against Disabilities Act
How American medicine learned to protect the institution from the sick, and why the wound goes deepest at the hospital, at the site of pain.
I did have full, black hair at one point.The chubby kid up front is me. My dad — the shorter man in back — coached our basketball team at Tabernacle Pres.
Joy, as it Turns Out, Is the Revenge of the Fat Kid
There is an arithmetic a fat kid learns before he learns long division, and it is done entirely in the lunchroom.
Integrative Literature Review
Marc McAleavey, MSW
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The New
Green Book
In 1993, Kretzmann and McKnight put a green book on the shelf and told us to stop mapping deficiencies and start mapping gifts, to build communities from the inside out. They wrote the book. Nobody ever published the paper that came out of it every morning.
This is that paper. Make Love Public is the daily edition and the workbook of The New Green Book, and Issue Zero is the volume it runs down the spine of, asking why institutions keep diagnosing people from fragments, and what it costs when we stop looking for assets and start looking for symptoms.
From the Wall · Provenance
A clipping remembering Ivan Illich, and a note left behind by John McKnight, "Marc: I meant to leave these with you when I visited. Peace." Gathered in preparation for An Evening with John McKnight & Ivan Illich at Broadway UMC.
I'm just keeping it alive.