“Things continue as they were since the beginning of the world,” is a saying from my early 20s heard while sitting in a college class room. The language has to do with the natural tendency to extend the present pattern of experience backwards and forwards. The denial of change is our default, our longing…
I have worried about something for a few months. My impression of the president has been of someone who is lying. Mind you I am not one who subscribes to a dogmatic definition of truth. There is no one to one correlation between reality and words. Reality itself varies somewhat person to person. It…
Waking before 5AM in the gathering morning light, my mission took me to Park Ridge. One benefit of a early start is once the client obligations are taken care of–enough of the day remains for reflection, and perhaps for a non routine project. During my return drive on 294 I listened to a few…
The Soil….is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care of it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life….
I grew up in North Carolina. As time passes I look back at my formative years as a kid in the 50s. My parents had life long careers working in the tobacco factories. Evangelical fundamentalist religion was the structuring element of our personal lives. In the pre civil rights days most of my friends…
With the news feed always available via iphone it is easy to be tethered to stories of tragedy, large scale vistas of wrack-and-ruin, and the ridiculous. Is not man both the tragic and the absurd animal? For the sake of one’s mental health it is best to forego a glimpse at the news-feed freak…
June 1, 2017 the President of the United States withdraws from the Paris Accord on Climate Change. The rise in sea level accelerates. The ice pack at both poles melts at an increasing rate. Weather events increase in severity. Species extinction continues. Hotter more acidic oceans. Famine. Forests succumb to drought and disease. I…
Memorial Day weekend is generally considered to be the beginning of summer here in Illinois. A rule of thumb, anything planted before Memorial Day can be lost to frost. With the arrival of this weekend, it is as if one hears a starting gun. The race begins to capture to the full the benefits…
Once again I am reminded that paying attention, waking up is critical to living well. Perhaps that is why we are here –if there is a why. That seems as good an answer as any to me. Especially since all of the answers to the “why” of human purpose are speculative. Place your bet…
We are co-creators of culture. Culture is the web of meaning received from preceding generations. The way of things, our shared sense of life together is handed off generation to generation. A deeper, wider, more satisfying understanding of our place and time on the earth is received from the artists of successive generations. These…
