I know @realdonaldtrump. Not personally but many many years ago I lived with a bully-man. He was a smart, charismatic, focused and a my-way-or-the-highway kind of guy. Before I met him people would have said I was intelligent, attractive and creative. After some years with …
Global warming –> global heating. Climate change –> Climate chaos. Civilizational in crisis –> Civilization headed for collapse. Systemic problems are multiplying with breakneck speed now, and “climate change” has moved, faster than anticipated, from a heady discussion to a gut-wrenching existential issue, reverberating …
We talk of “climate change” as if it is a phenomenon out there, not in here. That comfortable lie shattered this year, and this post spills out some of my feelings. If climate change is someone else’s responsibility, we play the blame game, and put …
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 …
