Happy Cinco de Mayo
Assuming, of course, that you are not French. In truth, resisting assault by empire builders is pretty cool, and also very dangerous. Also true is that in many places today…
Category: Humans and Nature
Nowhere to Lie; Nowhere to Hide
“Be impeccable with your word”… Contemporary politics is a shatterhouse of messaging. Politicians spew nonsense, mostly to raise money to stay in office “to work for the people”, i.e., the…
Routine Varigrade PTSD and Community Resilience
I realized yesterday while driving back from Quincy that everyone around here has PTSD to some degree or other. Frequent round trips through a watershed and forest distorted by the…
We Are Not Paying Attention
The marketing drive for ever increasing “convenience” and overriding concern for the next quarter’s numbers have us failing to track our major, lethal stalker. Platitudes flop about like flounder dying…
From Hidden Persuaders to “Influencers”
The pressure is on… on our minds, actually, and pushed at us via almost every available mass media information provider. We are served the horrors of war next to something…
When “Fire Season” Lasts All Year
(This post should have appeared yesterday, but reality intruded on my intentions.) I live outside of Greenville, California, once upon a time a small mountain town, since incinerated in the…
Big Question; Small Answer
Not much, eh? Been quite a day. Wild winds in the forest. Progress on a water system. McCollum for music. Magic for medicine. We know answers to so many questions,…
Natural Intelligence
Our self-assessment of human intelligence leaves us too dumb to seriously appreciate the depth of experience in nature. We underestimate the intelligence of natural processes and entities. Plant life appears…