Hi All,
You may or may not have noticed that Portals of Possibility has unceremoniously dropped from your inbox. Given our infrequency, it’s likely you didn’t notice.
But I wanted to drop a quick note to explain and also to plug something that I’ve been working on that you all might like.
First, we just got too busy. Monica, Carlos, and I are all independent contractors and the work tends to ebb and flow. For all three of us, it had been flowing, which is great on our end. But that made this unpaid project much more difficult to keep up.
For my part, I had not only turned my efforts to my client work, but to a different book project that is aligned, in some ways with Portals of Possibility. It’s about preparing for the apocalypse. Now stick with me here, there’s “possibility” in there. I realized that I was stuck in a bit of a climate action rut and dwelling too much on my climate grief when it came to acting upon climate change. I had also been dwelling on anxiety around my lack of preparedness for any kind of natural or humanmade disaster, and realized that my climate actions could take place at the intersection of those.
So for the past year, I’ve been working to build emergency preparedness, “prepping,” if you will. But not prepping in the “traditional” sense. More looking at it through my progressive, social justice-minded lens and thinking about it from a community and collective standpoint. And with that, Cramming for the Apocalypse, was born.
I’ve been posting weekly dispatches on this process on Substack, which you can subscribe to here:
Some of my past stories will likely show up at Cramming, so that’s a fun crossover.
I don’t know what is in store for Portals of Possibility. There’s a chance you’ll hear from us again through this channel. But I think about the project and our desire to find “possibilities thinking” around us all the time as I’m working on Cramming for the Apocalypse.
In the meantime, we hope to see you again, soon.
And if you’d like to start diving into Cramming for the Apocalypse, check out these two articles that explain a bit more about the project and might give you a glimpse into how anything apocalypse-related might have an optimistic bend.
All the best,
Elizabeth