I am grateful and extremely honored to have been published in the most recent quarterly edition of the Biodynamics Journal. To learn more, please click the link, or attend the TN Food Summit, or an event like it in your area, and read my piece, slightly edited, below. The world is full of wonderful places…
“You cannot step in the same river once.” ~ Chuang Tzu (maybe) The weather has changed again. After so many days of the children running outside barefoot, talking about Spring. After a roof and walls went up on the outbuilding so large I think we could almost move into it. After surveying the damage of…
First, I heard it. Old trees being felled on a wealthy man’s land. The sound of Greed. Then, everywhere I walked, its present was evident. I saw it in the roiling mud of a flooded stream, in the eroded hillside above. I smelled it in the putrid rich stink of industrial chicken litter being…
It is next to impossible in the middle of the night, when the sound of my family’s sweet sleeping fills my heart, to make peace with the senseless violence, the greed, and random tragedy of the world. These specters haunt my warm bed and torment my sleepy thoughts into a frenzy. I cannot protect those…
There is a teaching I received from Gary, my yoga teacher. He credits it to the Kabbalah. It’s been on my mind lately. Here it is, roughly, from my old notes: Let your body be a throne for your mind. Let your mind be a throne for your heart. Let your heart be throne for…