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Live the experiment
Daily Reflection 2025-05-21 I want to coin a new term: larva brain. We talk about our reptile brains; this is like that but different. The larva brain is a sort of layer over top of the organic brain. These larva are parasitic, feeding off the electricity of a brain that’s freaking out. It’s the larva…
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The Council of Stones
A story about trusting the counsel of rocks and other things older and wiser than you. Some evenings, the world feels too loud for language. Emails multiply like rats, the news mutates into performance art, and even well-meaning people suddenly require more emotional bandwidth than the average small-town power grid can provide. On those nights,…
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Reflections: January 6th, 2021
Jan 7, 2021 I had an interesting day today. Didn’t we all? Mine had a slight twist in it, though. My morning started out with an amazing conversation about death and life and collapse and, really, what’s it all about Alfie. Lately, I’ve been hosting online “navigation sessions” based on the sociocracy 3.0 model. We do…
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Someone here is crazy
Hint: It’s not me. Oct 31, 2018 The thing that makes me the angriest about our most recent slide towards fascism is that even when I know what’s happening, I still question my sanity from time to time. I suspect I’m not the only one. Most of us are unprepared for this. We have been…
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The Wisdom That Is Already There
When we quiet all the chatter Dec 02, 2025 Some lessons don’t arrive as wisdom. They arrive as exhaustion. I’ve been witnessing this one for years — this repeating pattern every time we try to build a coherent “system.” Just when you think you’ve got it almost worked out, life comes along and flicks it…
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Homeless in the Agora
The Wisdom of Agoraphobia Nov 25, 2024 A few years back, as we were “coming out” of Covid and everyone was rushing to get things “back to normal” I started to develop an odd form of agoraphobia. There were some events or meetings that I just couldn’t bring myself to attend, even though I’d been…
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You’re gonna feel this.
I’m seeing a lot of bruised and battered, dazed and confused folk wandering around out there, so I’m hoping this might provide a bit of relief for some of you. If my circle of friends or my own personal experience is any indication, a lot of us are starting to question our mental health lately.…
