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“Every city needs three things: a plaza, a hearth and a sacred tree.” The message came to me in a dream, as I was considering writing a sequel to The Fifth Sacred Thing, my futuristic novel in which an ecotopian Northern California struggles to resist an invasion by the brutal, militarist Southlands using […] Part of my thinking when I agreed to co-teach a permaculture design course at the remote Maya Mountain Research Farm in Belize was that this was an adventure I could still do. My days of trekking the Himalayas or backpacking the Inca trail are probably over, unless I get a new pair of […] Memories of Andy: Cancun, 2003. For weeks we’d been preparing for the demonstrations against the World Trade Organization, which was meeting at the Convention Center out on the spit of sand between the lagoon and the sea claimed by the big hotels. I’d been helping to train the students who were coming, and sitting in […] Today is the memorial for Margot Adler, author, NPR radio journalist, Witch and good friend! Below are the words I wrote for her service. Today, on Halloween when the veil is thin and the living and dead are in communication, we can remember her: For Margot Adler Margot and I were friends for many decades, […] |
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