New Year After Many Deaths Perhaps I will take up fiction again. Perhaps the life we live is stronger than the dead. Perhaps those who just now passed are sending messages. Perhaps the mourners are a little mad. How to pick up the reins? Don’t even have a horse these [...]

December 3rd, day before my partner, Wayne Morgenthaler's birthday, his Dad, Fred, died peacefully at age 97 in the company of wife, Bettie, and eldest son, Ronnie. Two days later, Terran Wulf, a new earthing, came into the world born to Wayne's son, Arlo (the whole natural birth room was [...]

So we honored Wayne's Mom, Pat, a life-long artist, her house graced by her paintings, at a Birthday Bash at her place recently. It was an obvious step - she's always a gracious host - and we wanted to re-do the 80th B-Day where about 80 people came to send [...]

You may be one of the dedicated few with time and money who makes it to NYC for The Largest Climate March in History this Sunday, Sept. 21st. RSVP to https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2351&search=ad&s_src=s_google09102014_paid&utm_source=s_google09102014_paid&s_subsrc=climate_march_rsvp&utm_campaign=climate_march_rsvp&utm_medium=ad&gclid=CjwKEAjwqO-gBRCEyp2Fufm0lBASJAAZrX-5rIANr1m54lVXzxQcPJqNfuTXB49It5k00IQj1a2VoBoCIzfw_wcB 350.org founder and long-time environmental activist, Bill McKibben is predicting the largest climate rally in possibly, history - and [...]

So viewing all the hoopla generated by Sebastopol Grange (our sister/brother Grange; we're Petaluma Grange), I noticed a day of the 10-day all-over-town event(s) called Sebastopol Village Building Convergence - that actually is staged in Petaluma - Josey's Garden, 422 I Street going on right now since yesterday (Tues./Wed. 9/16-17). [...]

So I attended the Sonoma Clean Power/Climate Protection Campaign Forum at our Luchessi Community Center this week - low attendance but saw lots of friends among us. Seems the prime purpose of the forum was to gather strength for a yes vote at Petaluma City Council after discussion in Novemeber. [...]

So a long-time writer for the New Yorker (admit I've subscribed many a year!), Michael Specter, just dissed a heroine of mine - and I'm MAD! I work to be mellow in the face of stupidity - but this article does the dirty to basic principles of journalism: posing as [...]

Oh, the Joys of Living in the Country! Hassled by Animals So the Redtailed Hawk sat atop our cinnabar barn, Taunting us with his intent to catch and eat a chicken; He’s still around (maybe a she?) with others of his tribe. I spot scat from the bobcat-chicken killer, run [...]

Seems it's a rare bird who writes actual letters these days, and rarer still two friends so thoughtful and thorough when sorting out what we all need our relationship to the land - and each other- to be. I am thankful these favorite writers and humans, farmers and marvelous poets, [...]

While I'm not Catholic as in a member of the Church, the practice: "to be catholic -- and here the lowercase is intentional -- is to be open, tolerant, and universal in one's interests and sympathies," appeals, so I have had this title, Where Are We Now, Mother Superior, in [...]