RadicalNow! | Cara | Activity https://radicalnow.org/community/members/thisistheplace/activity/ Activity feed for Cara. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:30:59 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=3.0.4 en-US 30 hourly 2 46bba7e46f1b6f2b74c219c8ff06c1b0 Cara replied to the discussion Get Your Bearings in the forum Map Makers https://radicalnow.org/community/groups/map-makers/forum/discussion/get-your-bearings/#post-1420 Tue, 19 May 2026 10:08:27 -0500 Reply to Get Your Bearings

Thanks for these notes on the activities!

]]> ccee69cf32ceee13dbb9666e4a5b6f0b Cara replied to the discussion Get Your Bearings in the forum Map Makers https://radicalnow.org/community/groups/map-makers/forum/discussion/get-your-bearings/#post-1418 Tue, 19 May 2026 10:06:55 -0500 Reply to Get Your Bearings

Wow, very exciting to hear that you were able to do all those activities! The feedback on how they went is great, and I’m glad that the Mind’s eye Map and Journal activity were especially fun. I like those two the most too 🙂 I would love to see any maps that you’ve drawn, if you would like to share them.

For the nickel navigation, I’m…

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]]> 22b4b89717d7ef8ec38842e0e4139fcb Cara replied to the discussion Get Your Bearings in the forum Map Makers https://radicalnow.org/community/groups/map-makers/forum/discussion/get-your-bearings/#post-1080 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:11:35 -0500 Reply to Get Your Bearings

I hope you get a sunny day soon! The nickel activity is a really fun one, I’d love to hear what you think about it once you get a chance to try it.

]]> 7df0060d3f4cc46c31072bf814b9e6df Cara posted a new activity comment https://radicalnow.org/timeline/p/285/#acomment-394 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:59:37 -0500 @Ben that’s a great distinction between definition and description. And I love that last sentence about “discovering the marvelous genius”

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I’m thinking a lot lately about the connection between aesthetic and hope: the world you visualize is the world you are building. I have to admit, I visualize a pretty […]

]]> 49a2f93e87bd8fb8b50011d9ddb9b664 Cara posted a new activity comment https://radicalnow.org/timeline/p/285/#acomment-315 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:03:36 -0500 @Ben That vision of prophetic is so compelling to me. Sounds like Matthew 16:2 a little bit.

I don’t know that I fully agree with that description of science, but BOY do I love it, and I think it’s at least in the spirit of what science is meant to be —something beautifully humble and brave and human.

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I’m thinking a lot lately about the connection between aesthetic and hope: the world you visualize is the world you are building. I have to admit, I visualize a pretty […]

]]> c776816e2f2529110c2c8f9bc08b4151 Cara posted a new activity comment https://radicalnow.org/timeline/p/285/#acomment-290 Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:19:21 -0500 @Ben I guess I’ve never given much thought to what punk actually is, but that makes a lot of sense— in what you’re saying about the Gospel as punk and also how it shows up in “Solarpunk”. Solarpunk is totally new to me- I love the phrasing of “the patience to evoke beauty” in here. It seems like making maple syrup, as a way of harnessing… Read more

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I’m thinking a lot lately about the connection between aesthetic and hope: the world you visualize is the world you are building. I have to admit, I visualize a pretty […]

]]> 5341e3461f6ead5c3c675a59bf242d2c Cara started the discussion Get Your Bearings in the forum Map Makers https://radicalnow.org/community/groups/map-makers/forum/discussion/get-your-bearings/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:21:20 -0500 Get Your Bearings

This is a set of activities from the Four Winds Nature Institute that looks at how animals find their way and use their senses to navigate, and gives us some ways to practice thinking about and using our own wayfinding skills and senses. Feel free to respond with:

1. Any takeaways or experiences from these activities

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Get Your Bearings – Activities

Focus: Many aspects of the physical world provide important cues for us and other animals as we move from place to place. We’ll see how animals use the position of the sun, features of the landscap…

]]> 6cd6a9422b2c0528fc2a3c988d74fa33 Cara posted a new activity comment https://radicalnow.org/timeline/p/285/#acomment-287 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:08:54 -0500 I love the line “how to repeat differently” from the Salvagepunk article!

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I’m thinking a lot lately about the connection between aesthetic and hope: the world you visualize is the world you are building. I have to admit, I visualize a pretty […]

]]> 04ad24ef1f335f54c194484e1da1e9bd Cara posted a new activity comment https://radicalnow.org/timeline/p/285/#acomment-286 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:04:56 -0500 This is reminding me of this article I read a while ago, about how fiction (Star Trek in this example) has power to shape the real world as it unfurls. Lots of power in speculative fiction and the stories we tell ourselves!!!! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-books/2023/09/08/star-trek-and-3-d-printing/

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I’m thinking a lot lately about the connection between aesthetic and hope: the world you visualize is the world you are building. I have to admit, I visualize a pretty […]

]]> 792c19f2a1d27147815c9494d769a44a Cara posted a new activity comment https://radicalnow.org/timeline/p/263/#acomment-275 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:16:58 -0500 @MagFamily Your house or Brandt road would be an awesome place to start… and I think it might also be fun to try making a map of the chicken coop 🙂

In reply to - Cara posted an update in the group Map Makers I’m including a link here to a book I’m reading currently. In it, David Sobel discusses the importance of giving kids the chance to make maps as a way to develop a […] ]]> 2deea2372b8a87542474719250fd6f1e Cara posted a new activity comment https://radicalnow.org/timeline/p/263/#acomment-274 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:11:21 -0500 @MagFamily I love the color coding, and that you used hours as a way to measure the distance!

In reply to - Cara posted an update in the group Map Makers I’m including a link here to a book I’m reading currently. In it, David Sobel discusses the importance of giving kids the chance to make maps as a way to develop a […] ]]> 6b837db1a772487909cae87a7462f1ad Cara posted an update in the group Map Makers: I’m including a link here to a book I’m reading […] https://radicalnow.org/timeline/p/263/ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:37:36 -0500 I’m including a link here to a book I’m reading currently. In it, David Sobel discusses the importance of giving kids the chance to make maps as a way to develop a sense of place. I’m finding it very useful and interesting so far as a guide to why making maps matters, especially for children, and full of ideas for ways to invite and lead… Read more

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Mapmaking with Children

Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years

]]> 4 e99a93ef14e9b0d6c9d0307125d04cd4 Cara changed their profile photo https://radicalnow.org/timeline/p/262/ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:46:55 -0500 0 44a9f14d2de26de2dec072aff621fa2a Cara joined the group ECO https://radicalnow.org/timeline/p/261/ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:42:56 -0500 0 3244672e1a435fa1466f4f89dabd2e3f Cara joined the group Map Makers https://radicalnow.org/timeline/p/216/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:56:13 -0500 0 9a32d12b0aae6def04303b4f3a1560a6 Cara became a registered member https://radicalnow.org/timeline/p/214/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:23:30 -0500 0