It wasn’t my proudest moment. I was young and dumb – the young part being a long time ago – and eating pizza at a restaurant with my friend Jack after a night of partying. We were drunk and high and unfortunately sitting next to a table of farmers who kept talking about plowing the … Continue reading
Setting: The small drab auditorium of an old elementary school or church. Our hero stands at the podium addressing a sorry-looking bunch of mild-mannered men hunched over in their metal folding chairs. Our Hero: Hi, I’m a recovering animal. A chorus of grumbling Hello’s and Welcomes bubble up like simmering lava. Our Hero: As most … Continue reading
Book excerpt It’s amazing how easily health can slip away, and all that you know, all the confidence you have to do something as simple as eat a piece of cake or have a cup of coffee, is lost. Something wasn’t right. My morning latte was literally taking my breath away. I looked suspiciously at … Continue reading
I’ve thought for sometime that it must be difficult to be young and growing up these days in such uncertain times about the fate of the planet. Finally, the following video offers great hope in the possibility of reversing climate change, more proof that a holistic approach is needed in everything we do. Continue reading
I got fired from a job once because of office politics. Ironically I’d probably never worked harder or accomplished more for any other firm, but the man who engineered my departure had been against my hiring 13 months before. He wanted to promote someone from within his team, and it took him a year to … Continue reading
Maybe for some it’s a tough question. What is more important: the right to bear arms, or the right to grow up and go to school without being shot? What would we prefer: the right to own a gun or the right to live in a peaceful, civilized society? What’s the better vision: the vision of the … Continue reading
Or maybe I am. Who knows? I need to drop at least twenty pounds but my body refuses to budge, maybe because those cravings for my old favorite addictions keep coming back, and every once in a great while, I give in. My body is apparently at that age where months can pass by without … Continue reading
We put our snowshoes on and stepped down the wobbly tree-trunk steps of my brother Mike’s tattered, mouse-infested house, and trudged through the thick snow, past the wood piles and doorless outhouse (always a delight in mid-winter), and over the top of his abandoned vehicles – a few exposed windows peeking out from under the … Continue reading
We live on a planet that uses the concept of balance as an operating system, as can be seen by how our bodies function, how ecosystems are kept in balance through predation and competition, how even our government (interestingly enough), is set up as a balanced system, hoping to find the best solutions through compromise … Continue reading
(finally, some high-brow literature..) My spiritual advisor taught me how to communicate with trees, but my first attempt didn’t go over to well. That tree you sent me to told me to get lost. She gave me a look of disdain. What did you say to upset it? Nothing, I did just as you described. … Continue reading
