The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge ~ Daniel J. Boorstin   I’m often accused of being a nihilist. It’s hardly the nastiest accusation thrown my way. While I was touring in the…

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more ~ Lord…

You can catch me at SOAK 2018, 25-29 May 2018 at the Justesen Ranch near Portland, Oregon (on Facebook, too). I’m scheduled for four events, one each morning and also one each afternoon on Friday and Saturday, respectively. After SOAK,…

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another ~ Jalal Talabani   Jack writes. He never thought he’d die. Surely I don’t believe what I write. I respond, for reasons completely unclear to me. I try to be kind, even…

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction. ~ Allen Ginsberg   I learned a lot about love at the homestead I developed and recently sold in New Mexico. The primary…