An Easter Sermonette
Well, I do declare… I declare that I have to say this for my own dignity, sanity and integrity. I need to say where I stand in this world, even if I feel like a fool saying it, given how the devastating story running …
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Q Arrives in Our Town
The white nationalists have found our town, a seaside village on a long, skinny island in Puget Sound, with a Naval Air Station in the north, an historic farming town in the middle and a parfait of cultures that have over the years chosen …
Coexistence as the climate changes
As a member of the Deep Adaptation Forum, I was invited to write a post for Jem Bendell’s blog. I’d been reading posts in the Forum various plans to move to the country, buy property, invite people to build an intentional community together, and ride out …
Now is the time for all good people to listen
Waking up to Trump as President-Elect feels like waking up on 9/11 to unbelievable images of the twin towers crumbling. From our everyday concerns we-the-people were thrust into a range of passions and sorrows, assumptions and reactions we had little idea how to handle. We …
Relational Foodsheds?
What is it, really, that I am up to with my current work? Don’t you ask that yourself? Where is this leading me? What has me so in its grip? Relational eating is one part – the personal, spiritual, embodied, earthy self-as-eater. Community food systems, …
I like a good bargain as much as the next girl you might date
“Smart SWF looking for a good bargain. Are you the one?” Interested? According to ING Direct and eHarmony, you might be. When ING Direct Bank asked 1000 people what they’d think of a blind date described as frugal, only “3.7 percent answered “sexy,” while 15 …
John Robbins tells it like it is
John Robbins, a speaker in the Conscious Money Speakers Series recently wrote The New Good Life. One Chapter is in fact his recapitulation of Your Money or Your Life. Read the following interview in the U.S. News and World Report and get inspired all over …