I had been a devoted “certified organic” shopper for 25 years when something struck me while shopping in a well known supermarket in 2003. While selecting broccoli in the produce section I couldn’t help but notice that the appearance of both the conventionally grown and the “certified organic” broccoli looked exactly the same! I picked […] Read more…
It was about eleven years ago that I bought my elk skin hand drum, custom made by Denise Linn. I had been to a class she was teaching on Space Clearing and she had the most incredible sounding drum and when I inquired where she got it she said, “well I make them!” I was […] Read more…
Until a few years ago I didn’t even know a country named Bhutan existed, only 110 miles from the north to south and 200 from east to west, Bhutan – called by its people Druk Yul, “the Land of the Thunder Dragon” – is home to a remarkable variety of climates and ecosystems. When I […] Read more…
Recently while I was doing some research for a new web application I was looking for a simple and clean, almost zen-like way to create alternating rows of color in a table. Interestingly this problem was not connected with the website I was creating. As I was scouring the web I came across a multitude […] Read more…
One Trillion Dollars seems like a large amount of money. It can be a little hard to comprehend so, I broke it down with several examples so that we can see what it really is. It is only 18 times Bill Gates net worth It is enough for every (legal) man, woman and child to […] Read more…
Just how much is 36 Billion dollars? 36 Billion Dollars seems like a large amount of money. It can be a little hard to comprehend so, I broke it down with several examples so that we can see what it really is. It is one-half of Bill Gates net worth It is enough for every (legal) […] Read more…
Even though this stage of our lives is only a little over a month old now I can honestly say that I do not miss any of the things we parted with and I do not miss anything we left behind. I’m finding living in community with the people here at Earthaven Ecovillage to be […] Read more…
February: ‘Good Oak’ from A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot. Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we […] Read more…
Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood is ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence… If you ask him: “What is silence?” he will answer “It is the Great Mystery. The holy silence is his voice.” If you ask: “What are the […] Read more…
Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see and to listen intently when all was seemingly quiet. Luther Standing Bear (1868-1939) Oglala Sioux Chief Los Catalos Big fan of living simply Look […] Read more…
