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…

Further clarification: My prediction of human extinction by 2026, which is based on my interpretation of near-term future temperature rise, does not project into the future based solely upon prior data. Sam Carana sometimes uses projection of extant trends to…