An unseasonably warm December left only light dusting of snow, which made the coyote, rabbit and dog tracks very easy to identify, It also meant chopping and hauling a lot less firewood. My Occupy Farm experience must have left me with waves of “up sparkle” energy. As I sat in Port Authority Bus Terminal on [...]

I’m on my way to a farm that has joined the Occupy movement. I know nothing about it except that as a long-term sustainable option, farms make sense to me. You can only sleep on concrete and marble in a city “park” for so long. I have no idea what will happen in the next [...]

The hunter with the rifle was in a better position to take the shot, but it was my doe tag. So thanks to this very generous doe, I now have 35 pounds of venison to prepare in any way I see fit.  Yes, I did take time to thank the doe for giving her life [...]

The last time I showed up at the OWS People’s Library, I learned that the yellow-vested security guards refused to allow any library books to be displayed at Zuccotti Park  during the day. Yes, it gets worser and worser. To add insult to injury,  a published author who I consider a friend, accused me of [...]

Thanksgiving Day was special this year, because of the resilience of the Occupy movement around the world. Occupy Wall Street was the site of an amazing shared feast, music, voice relay messages and library presence at Zuccotti Park. It is also the source for the sense of hope shared by my fellow 99-percenters. OWS is [...]

I left for Toronto, Ontario just after OWS putt Goldman Sachs on trial.  Little did I know that the book the librarians encouraged me to take along on my journey would become a survivor of a brutal library massacre. I’m still carrying WIIGWAASI-JIIMAAN: Birch Bark Canoe Building, Jeff Savage, with the OWS Library stamp wherever [...]

At OWS, when I hear “mic check” I know that people are preparing to send a message via voice relay. It’s not hard to figure out who is meeting and when. But the most impressive use of this voice relay technique was when we found a lost 7-year-old literally within minutes  -  even before the [...]

Nature’s multi-shaded red and gold rock sculptures appear to rise into the sky. My first visit to the Valley of Fire northeast of Las Vegas left me in awe of these sandstone formations that are over 150-180 million-year-old. I cannot imagine 150 million of anything, let alone years. I would later learn that their red color [...]

I was lucky to get to a trailhead at all today.  The caved-in pavement of area roads is astounding. I’ve been thinking about Nature’s power, reflecting on the warnings issued over the course of my life that our conspicuous consumption is unsustainable. There are certain laws that humans cannot violate or ignore, like the Law [...]

My sister lives in Austin Texas, where there has been no rain for 10 months. My friend Terri lives in Vermont, where entire towns are cut off from all services because roads and bridges have washed out. Just a few miles north of me in the Catskills, the storm also destroyed roads stranding entire towns. [...]