Planting the Seeds of Your Legacy
Been thinking a lot about the kinds of legacy people leave behind. For instance, though I'm not reading as many physical magazines as I once did and consuming even less of this type of content over the Internet, YES! Magazine was one periodical I did regularly enjoy. As they shutter this publication after 30 years of seeding goodness into the world, I wanted to take a moment to honor the closing thoughts of Sarah van Gelder offered in this final entry: 'The World is Burning: Does the YES! Approach Still Matter?' ( https://howwerise.substack.com/p/the-world-is-burningdoes-the-yes ) Slightly paraphrased excerpt: When news arrived on May 7, 2025, that YES! would be closing, I felt shock and sadness at the end of an organization I led as founding editor and at the loss to the progressive media world. But the outpouring of social media comments …. got me wondering: Are there parts of YES! that can have continued life? Understanding our current moment required understandi...