Hello, reader. How are you? I love foraging. It brings together my favorite things: free food, intimacy with plants, and nature time. Sometimes I don’t feel empowered, or what if I make a mistake? To mitigate that, I feel braver with a buddy. parks My dear friend and I went to a local park and… Read More »
Hello, I had a revelation about exercise equipment. Exercise equipment has always confused me. Why do people spend thousands of dollars on this mostly metal and plastic that doesn’t actually accomplish anything but exercise, when moving our bodies is free? Not like you make electricity from it, weave cloth, or make tortillas. At the end,… Read More »
Hello, how are you doing? Isn’t this little free pantry beautiful in the gleaming sunrise light? Free is my favorite flavor. Little free libraries are cool, and I’ve known about them for a while. They feed the mind. But little free pantries will feed the tummy. How lovely. This one had inside some cans of… Read More »
Hello, thought you might enjoy Thorn Coyle’s essay today, I Am Not (Just) Pro-Choice. https://www.thorncoyle.com/post/i-m-not-just-pro-choice I have been enjoying Thorn Coyle’s ideas for a long time. Especially a song about direct action at the test site called Present from 1998. clinics I’ve never done clinic defense, but I’ve encountered the violent religious people outside of… Read More »
Hey, guess what. We had fun recently propagating cactus. I guess we won’t know for a while if it worked. But it was fun to try. propagating cactus Our friend who lived here in our guest room for three months last year left a San Pedro. Yes, it’s ok if you think of the Madonna… Read More »
Hey, I would like to tell you about the latest incident of me and Ming, two non-eaters of birds, making chicken for the elders who live here. Here’s a picture of the non-beautiful food that hopefully was nourishing for their bodies. I got in my mind the notion that I could get a can of… Read More »
In the early morning on Trinity Day, I did a peace ritual in the courtyard. Ming recorded me. Please see the video. It’s mostly a prayer. I post the words of the whole ritual in the description. Thanks for praying with me, or using this ritual to design your own. I planned and wrote it… Read More »
Yesterday I made chicken cacciatore. That might come as a surprise to you, seeing as I have a reputation for being vegetarian. I don’t eat birds at all–I haven’t eaten bird since I was young. I made a bird version and regular, which was vegan. elders This is what happened. There are elders who live… Read More »
When the kirtan singer does something too complicated, and the audience can’t accurately copy it. I listen to their sweet struggle and smile. Is that mean? I don’t mean it mean. I’ve been there! I eat raw garlic on my food whenever I want, because it’s covid, and no one is smelling my breath except… Read More »
zine irony I used to give away my zines only, for years, and people would be skeptical. Or people would think the zines had no worth, if there was no dollar amount–they must be low quality, so I should’t bother. I learned I could reach more people by charging for my zines, as people would… Read More »