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 …
Category: Life Design
Covid Parties and Second Hand Smoke
The natives are restless out here in Quarantine USA. I am too. I want to dance with my friends, hug them in public, browse around thrift stores looking for bargains, shoot off my wide open mouth over coffee in a cafe. I want to touch …
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 …
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
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, …
From despair to repair
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 …
Beyond Despair – Global Earth Repair
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 …
Allowing ourselves to feel the burn
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 …
Do we need a lifeboat, an ark… or a big wave?
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 …
Is a life of service a life of joy?
When I was 24, I had a trip (psychedelic) that changed my life. My fear-filled mind opened and a trusting, connected, honest, kind, joyful being trapped inside my zipped up persona took over. Sitting for hours with a group of friends, I narrated this vision …