Category Archives: APRIL 2022

There are, I have decided, two kinds of thinking. The habitual, addictive type of thinking is what Eckhart Tolle encourages us to refrain from. It is the type of thought that takes over a person’s mind, feeding them a continuous … Continue reading →

Do you remember Kermit from Sesame Street? He sang, “It’s not easy being green…” Indeed, it is not easy being an environmentalist, an ecofeminist, a naturalist, or a budding permaculturist in a world that is mostly brown. In a world … Continue reading →

The term ecofeminism was coined by a French woman, Françoise d’Eaubonne in1974. Noting the associations between women and the environment, and the way in which both have been dominated under a male hierarchy, it sought to reassert value to the … Continue reading →

When I was in high school, I rode with my girlfriend and her parents to drop off her older sister at her college campus in Boulder, Colorado. My friend and I helped her settle into her tiny dorm room and … Continue reading →

The terrible Chernobyl disaster that occurred in April 1986, in Ukraine, released massive amounts of radiation into the environment. The country, after more than two decades since gaining its independence from the Soviet Union, was beginning to recover; but Putin’s … Continue reading →

This is the time of year when human beings declare war on the insects of the world. Hungry ants, waking up from hibernation, are on their search for food as they emerge from their winter nests. People spot them in … Continue reading →

Cities and towns dream up some of the dumbest things in order to acquire revenue. One of them is the annual renewal of license plates on our vehicles. We have already paid taxes on our vehicle when we purchased it; … Continue reading →

I took my daughter to dinner the other night to celebrate her new job. The waitress brought one large Mason jar filled with ice water to the table. I had ordered a beer and my daughter had ordered a coke, … Continue reading →

Every cloud has its silver lining. Every difficult period that we have experienced in our lives has taught us something. The COVID pandemic has done just that for many people. The interruption to life as we had known it reminded … Continue reading →

I have been reading the beautiful poetry of Hafiz, a poet and Sufi master of the 13th century. In his poem titled That Does Perish (translated into English by Daniel Ladinsky) I love the line,  “The Earth would die If … Continue reading →