How We've Angered the gods of Nature: The Odyssey's Enduring Relevance
Why We Struggle With Odysseys:
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Why Habitat Matters -- A Success Story
“All flourishing is mutual.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Long, Hot Summer
Why So Many are in Denial About Global Warming
How Tom Stoppard Still Speaks to Us About Genocide and Its Permanent, Indelible Shadow
In New Orleans, I am sweating profusely in the 95-degree heat, listening to a jazz combo and sipping pensively on my water bottle.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is the Future and Past of Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge is Power and Non-Human Living Entities Should Have Legal Rights
On the grounds on what was once the world’s largest refractor telescope on lands once inhabited by the Potawatomi people, Robin Wall Kimmerer was talking about living things having legal rights.
Can You Find Solitude on a Farm? How Wendell Berry Speaks to Us
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
How Local Farming Can Revive America
The farm I expected to find was in a warehouse on a frontage road next to a parking lot with a barbed wire fence.
The Obama Fireplace Talk That Changed America’s Life: And Transformed My Own Humble Station
It was a modest fireplace, unlit and awaiting a speaker who would provide some political combustion.
Dance Like a Butterfly! Finding Joy in Nature and Ourselves
A Message of Hope for a Happy Juneteenth
Cutting Down Trees is Not Progress: Choose Compassion Over Chainsaws!
My friend and neighbor Tony loved planes so much he decided to build one in his garage.