Welcome! I'mDon Christoff

Originally published on March 18, 2026, at Resilience.org Abstract We live in a shadow that many of us have inherited without realizing it. This shadow is not a metaphor for destruction or despair, but an obscurity that forms when our relationship with justice becomes

Originally published on March 16, 2026 at Resilience.org Humanity celebrates each new declaration of rights as moral progress, as if expanding them could heal the world. Yet with each generation, the same patterns of dominance persist. Injustice is not shrinking; it is evolving. Perhaps

Originally published on January 22, 2026 at Resilience.org The Shared Breath Every living thing takes part in the same quiet exchange. With each breath, we become part of the atmosphere shaped by forests, oceans, and the unseen work of countless microorganisms. About 21 percent

Originally published on December 11, 2025, at Resilience.org We often describe places as empty. A quiet valley at dusk. A stretch of desert without houses. A winter field that looks barren beneath a pale sky. Even a pause in conversation becomes a kind of

Originally published on October 21, 2025, at Resilience.org The word communism has been dragged through history as a banner for human politics. However, its Latin origin, communis, means shared, as in belonging to all. Long before Marx or Lenin, this was not an ideology

Where predators roam, ecosystems recover. Connection isn't a privilege of the wild — it’s the foundation of all survival. Within the movement of predators lies the memory of balance. Their paths trace the invisible threads that hold ecosystems together: rivers that nourish valleys, forests

I bet a few of you are wondering about this - at least, the genuinely curious among you.  I have been and still am a huge Jethro Tull fan. "Wond'ring aloud" is a song from their 1971 album, Aqualung. The lyrics have stayed with me

For the whole of humanity, the climate crisis is a very real, very dangerous existential threat. The climate crisis is a global event, which means no humans and earth bound lifeforms can escape its effects. Planet Earth does not need saved. However, we do.

1984. The ink on my Penn State Computer Science degree is still wet, and I am living in Phoenix once more. Dreams of being a computer programmer are still very real (they won’t be for long), and my life goals remain fluid. I am