Nature Transmissions
(A version of this letter also appears in Our Uncertain Future, a blog about living off grid.)
Imagine this, it is the year 2050 and you are lucky enough to still be alive. Feeling...
“Totality!” the extraordinarily excited young man yelled in the park near the airport by the lake in Dallas on April 8th, 2024, somewhere we chose randomly because it was open, green,...
In 2020, the human world went quiet. Sheltered in place due to a pandemic, humans stopped traversing the globe, dining out, meeting in community, gathering in public, attending events, or going to...
Today on my hike around the mountain, I felt so safe and so relaxed, even with the sun already down and the evening light dimming. The birds were swirling and singing with excitement and yellow...
Recently, I was diagnosed with Adult Inattentive Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This is a genetic neurodevelopment disorder that is diagnosed in 3% of adults. Discovering my...
Have you ever described someone as grounded?
When someone is grounded, they are stable, balanced and seem to operate from a strong sense of inner peace. We may also call someone “down to...
At the start of each year, we tend to reevaluate our habits and good health usually pops up as the number one aspect of living that we need to focus on. Of course, it does! Without good health,...
Fire symbolizes humanity’s separation from the wilderness and from the divine.
As far as we know, primordial humans lived in darkness until they discovered how to harness fire only a million...
This Winter Solstice is the one-year anniversary of All of Us Stardust.
The name for this course and community hub comes from the Carl Sagan quote:
“The nitrogen...
(This post originally appeared on Our Uncertain Future.)
I can’t stop thinking about that meme.
A gorilla is talking to a man. The man rudely says to the gorilla, “You are such a dumb...
You’ve been wanting to start that CliFi novel or memoir about soloing the PCT or astronomy blog or nature poetry compilation or essay about your grandmother’s farm for years now,...
Land ownership is a social construct. It is a societal agreement that only stands up if we all agree to it. And even then, we don’t have a claim to the land, only the right to use it. The...
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