community Reading and Discussion of
Fierce Consciousness:
Surviving the Sorrows of Earth and Self
with author Trebbe Johnson
Wednesday, March 29th at 7pm
Seward Park Audubon, 5902 Lake Washington Blvd S, Seattle, WA 98118
When grief and anxiety beat us down, the struggle to cope can feel like it’s crushing us even more. To meet big challenges we need to develop fierce consciousness. In her new book Trebbe Johnson reveals 34 practices that are smart, tough, sassy, and surprising. They offer guidance not only for surviving challenges to our personal lives and our ailing planet, but also engaging with them in ways that give new meaning and beauty to daily experience.
“Unabashedly courageous and edgy, wise and poignant,
Trebbe Johnson recognizes that each of us is a makeweight in the shaping of any possible future for us and the planet. She turns away from nothing, inviting each of us to find our deep affection for this beleaguered world and to put our love on the line.”
—Francis Weller
Author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow
Trebbe Johnson is the author of four previous books, including Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth’s Broken Places, as well as many articles and essays that explore the human bond with nature. She is the founder and director of the global community Radical Joy for Hard Times, devoted to finding and making beauty in hurt places. Since 1993 she has been guiding wilderness rites of passage journeys in the eastern and western U.S. and in Scotland, Ireland, Germany, the Sahara Desert of southern Algeria, and with military veterans. Trebbe speaks four languages; has camped alone in the Arctic wilderness; and worked as an artist’s model, a street sweeper in an English village, and an award-winning multimedia producer. She lives in Ithaca, NY.
trebbe@trebbejohnson.com
