Theodore Richards is an educator,
writer, and philosopher, and the founder
of The Chicago Wisdom Project.
His work is dedicated to re-imagining
education and creating new narratives
about our place in the world.

I want to know what happened to Icarus
after his wings melted away,
when he fell into the fathomless sea.
This is where the story begins.

Ours is undeniably a world on fire. The seas are rising, forests burn, geopolitical strife accelerates, and our inner lives are increasingly unmoored, in collapse. Many of us no longer know our place in this world. Like Icarus, we are in free fall. Tracing the author’s travels through some of the most despairing, remote, and beautiful regions of the Earth, What Happened to Icarus is both a call to action and a call to remember — to remember who we are, so that we may fall in love with the world again, even as we despair in our descent.

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