​[Painting by Betsy McCall, now in the permanent collection at ModNomad Studio. This imagery and Betsy's social practice project, the Art Monastery, have been crucial to the development of ModNomad. To get back to the main site you can always click on our logo at the top of the page, or right here.] Since our societal and environmental breakdown went into overdrive in January 2017, I've been toddling toward some new way of being in this world. My organizing principle came fro

Trump reintroduced his shameful travel ban executive order earlier today, and despite some tweaks, it remains unconstitutional and based on religious discrimination. The ACLU successfully fought for injunctions to block deportations and other features of the first executive order, and I was happy to see this today in Rollingstone, based on an interview with Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project: "We believe the new order continues to be based o