Year: 2020

This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy.You can find it here>> It was a time of giddiness and babble, when the world seemed hopeful and lost all at once. Possibility lurked on the edge of each moment. Disaster loomed across every horizon. With humanity at a crossroads, the […]

This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy.You can find it here>> By morning, the smoke had swallowed the sky. The day dawned in an eerie orange glow. The Council of All Beings disbanded and evacuated. Charlie and Zadie drove north, shoulders twitching and tensing as the fire tripped […]

This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy.You can find it here>> They drove south from Oregon along the winding coastal highway, craning their necks at the explosions of surf and stopping every half hour to admire the wild coast. Craggy mounds of eroding sandstone skulked in the fog. […]

This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy.You can find it here>> A high wind smacked the water, kicking up waves that glinted grey as the overcast sky. Barrie eyed the river warily as he slurped his coffee. He set the mug down and tied a second bowline to […]

This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy.You can find it here>> Heat flattened the city. Asphalt gleamed, shiny and malevolent. Concrete endured in washed-out weariness. Anything green wilted and crisped at the edges in the inferno of the record-breaking summer temperatures. Heat waves curled off the concrete, steel, […]

This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy. Find the novel here. ____________________ The Democracy Lab’s Forum took place in an old chapel which had been stripped of religious iconography. It had been converted into a theater-in-the-round by removing the pews and circling concentric rings of chairs around a […]

“Starling Murmuration – Eastbridge” by Airwolfhound is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 The Murmuration – From Winds of Change .This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy.You can find it here>> _________________ The murmuration swarmed through the streets like a wild dance class released from studio walls. It was a flocking movement, modeled […]

Hip hip hooray! The Lost Heir is the winner of the 2019 Nautilus Award Silver Medal in Middle Grade Fiction. This honor is given to books with socially-engaged themes. Ari Ara’s second adventure, full of youth organizing, economic justice, and a fantasy world where street urchins and migrant workers build peace and wage nonviolence to stop […]

by Rivera Sun “Wendy” is a mind-blowing, intense, and soul-shattering new film from the creators of Beasts of the Southern Wild. The movie burst through my heart and soul like the freight train that conveys the modern-day remix’s characters to Never Never Land. This adaptation transcends the syrupy interpretations we’ve come to expect from Peter […]

By Rivera Sun As the editor of Nonviolence News, I collect 30-50 stories of nonviolence in action each week. Each story offers us a take-away lesson for our own work for change. These lessons offer us best practices and pro-tips from our fellow human beings who are working for change around the world. We can learn from […]