I now have two homes on this earth. Just look at them both in this spring full of light. First, my home in the middle of the North Atlantic … Spring […]
It is So Good to be Home
The Search for Life on the Inner Planets
Note: I have been convinced for some time now that the best descriptions of contemporary life are in Speculative Fiction. Here’s a first attempt at bringing them out of fiction into the […]
How Could Anyone Want More Sun Than This?
The sun starts out as perfect as can be, burning the hydrogen of a star that shone before it and exploded long ago. Out here, where other bits of that star accumulated […]
An Unexpected Companion
Look who has been up in the ravine eating the bark off of choke cherry trees and now has places to go that entail a very slow walk across the face of […]
Water Farming
Yesterday, I introduced the concept of Open Agriculture: a form of agriculture that works with the forms and processes of the land and unites very different settler and indigenous forms of cultivation. Today, […]
A Year of Walking and Learning, Part 2
Welcome to the second summary of the first year of my explorations in revisioning the goals of literature and the relationship of place and environment in the dry country east of the […]
Visions of Earth and Sky
Been thinking. Putting two and two together. Thinking, “Some things are so obvious that you can’t see them for a long, long time, and then you see them and you think, whoosh, […]
Fire in the Grass!
Bit of a grass fire here the other day. Young guy with a lighter. Wondered what it might do. Found out. Too many generations since there was fire here. Hard to remember to […]
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