Start at the Seed Bank at 11am tomorrow, and follow the whole parade of Poetry Walk around Petaluma's downtown and it is likely to work like an extended meditation on the world and everything. For word smiths and affianados, it's a great day. For twenty-two years, Petaluma Poetry Walk has [...]
Digging a bit deeper into descriptions outlined in the book, DRAWDOWN, the compendium on HOW TO DRAWDOWN carbon in our atmosphers, we see alternative energy is way less expensive than conventional energy systems - and therefore apt to win out longterm in the energy wars. Our planet can survive and [...]
Dipping into Paul Hawken's new compilation/book, DRAWDOWN, I (still) find hope for a healthy planet. "Confucious wrote that calling things by their proper name is the beginning of wisdom," Drawdown chapter on Language begins. We must first know that decarbonization is a tool that describes the problem, "climate changes and [...]
For sensitive me (sensitive you may share these experiences?), the soap opera that is our National Government has of late provided me with headaches, nightmares, a feeling of uselessness, helplessness. But I'll never give in. Out to prove to myself, family, friends and readers (those we don't yet know) I'm [...]
Whew! An embarrassment of riches, says Micheal Krasny often. Planned on marching with Peace and Justice Center in Santa Rosa this Sat. April 29th to defend immigrant rights, public lands, work to drawdown climate change - and then realized our GRANDDAUGHTER, Bella, is getting her first Capoeira belt and cousin, [...]
I felt compelled to get to the March for Science today, favoring the SF march, but - because the whole entire family minus one or two are coming together here tomorrow, I'm not going. I did it to myself: time to gather the family, long wandering around the globe. What's [...]
During the Vietnam War (and other wartimes - why does this seem like one???), poetry was a thing that helped people keep their spirits up in the streets, in all sorts of venues. In Russia, a hero in the poetry world was Yevtushenko, in Czechololovakia, Vaclav Havel, in Germany, Bertold [...]
Oscar Night at the Mystic! Our second year of dressing up for Free Speech Radio - the new KPCA FM station in the making through our Petaluma Community Access (PCA). I attended a recent stakeholders meeting and met a guy who creates radio dramas, murder mysteries with a twist (is [...]
Just staying steady in this time of High Wind can be exhausting - takes a village, really. So we'll get to Petaluma City Council to stand for our endangered friends and call for City Council to pass the "It Won't Happen Here" declaration this evening, promptly at 7 pm for [...]
Friends and family and friends I haven't met yet are in turmoil. What happened to the mostly kindly world we were used to? Liars and bullies with big money interests seem to have taken it over...but I haven't given up hope. We don't really know these new people and they [...]
Whatever you would do or dream you would do, begin! said Goethe and we’re still trying to figure that out! Great films and books are essential for an active 21st Century mind, but great friends and pets are way better for walks. Take lots of walks, I say, and get thee to the countryside right outside Petaluma…so, so pretty…And then actually helping others out is what makes you grounded, being part of the local/global tribe of your choice. They still need members, you know.