In improv theater we have a game called: What is this? For example, What is this? Yes of course it is a Trader Joe’s plastic tub for chocolate chip cookies. But what else is it? A container for compostable veggie scraps. An under-sink container for …
That title was a tease. I have not made nor will I ever make full sense of me, but I want to connect the dots of my disparate – sometimes desperate – projects over many years and reveal the wholeness and practicality that links them …
I wake each day to stories of loss, of deceit and of a rabble that’s far too late to the party, clamoring for their piece of the pie. The masters are long gone. The people fight for crumbs, plotting only to line up sooner, …
I belong to an online climate discussion group that today asked three questions: what is the state of the movement, do we need climate change or system change, and do we need a meta-movement? Keying off the insights from the Earth Repair Conference, I wrote …
At the Global Earth Repair Conference May 3-5 I experienced a paradigm shift in the structure of my thinking. I learned a few new things, but mostly it rearranged what I know into a new pattern. Grief about the inevitability of decline, not just of humans …
Consensus is growing. Civilization as we know it is on a death watch. Like so many who stand at the bedside of ones we love, I feel helpless and heartbroken. With all the information we’ve had for decades – all the books/ papers/ websites with …
After waging war comes building peace, right? Not in US politics. Not now. Now we have palace intrigue worthy of the Saud family. What we need is political sanity, a team of allies, not enemies, governing our nation. Political contests in a democracy may be …
For years I and others have worked with great determination to reverse the tide of destruction of natural systems, to catch some great wave of change that will lift all our boats over the great reef of resistance. We’ve launched many boats (projects), and fleets …
Mueller’s ambiguous findings about obstruction offered one big aha! If you aren’t hiding your flirtations with legality, are they prosecutable offenses? Remember that Trump said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in NYC and get away with it? Maybe, I now realize, there’s method …
There. I said it. In a society where “whatever” is the only safe ground in a sea of fanatic polarization, I confess to loving morality and moral dilemmas. Not the Tab A into Slot B morality of matching actions to credo and taking the safest …
