Welcome.

This blog’s goal of exploring how sanctuary can help people, myself included, withstand the massive forces of geopolitical, environmental, social and technological change is somewhat more complicated than going green or eating locally.

It cuts to the heart of the individual-and collective-challenge of nurturing hope and trust during a period in history when kindness, compassion and wisdom may be waning in their influence over human affairs.

To create a forum for dialog and, of course, to make a home for my writings on sanctuary, I warmly invite you, the reader, to share:

• Thoughts on creating sanctuary
• Design ideas that inspire you, from ways to improve human interaction to ways to live more simply and use resources more respectfully
• Insights on the future that's taking shape
• Concerns you have about what the future may be like for coming generations
• Your ways of coping with troubling environmental, economic, social or technological indicators
• Comments on the posts

To provide a modicum of diversity and richness, I will from time to time interview people-from writers, designers and visionaries to activists, politicians and the homeless-to learn more about their lived experience of sanctuary.