Permaculture course coming to a close in the next two weeks. Feeling both closer and more distant to this community as time passes. Slept fourteen hours Monday night. I'm having new experiences. Growing pains. I'm reading Freire and bell hooks, linking them with what Tom's been giving us glimpses of and remembering this time last year when I ( Read more... )

Yesterday's forum on homelessness was both more and less than I'd hoped for. Daniel was extremely well-spoken at first, but devolved into single-mindedness. There was no opportunity for people other than the experts to speak, but they did each know something, a couple of them quite a lot. I got contact info for several, as well as several city ( Read more... )

First and foremost: There's a plan on the table right now to open up 2.5 million acres of preserved forest in western Oregon to logging, including some of the largest tracts of old growth left in the country. The public comment period for this Western Oregon Plan Revision (WOPR, or as we're calling it, whopper) is the 11th. Read more and COMMENT! ( Read more... )

How do I care so deeply for one I know so little? She said she wanted to travel to big bend with me, this delicate woman from Texas I met in the gorges of Ithaca one summer day. She was planning on coming down to Austin this weekend, and then had...what I gather to be an anxiety attack. Like another dear one, she called it being sick, and I ( Read more... )

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