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How can I help? (part 1)
Finding Flow in turbulent times Jan 20, 2017 The world’s a mess. Democracy is in peril. The ice caps are melting. And the inmates have taken over the asylum. Suddenly, more and more people are waking up to alarm bells and wondering what can I do; how can I help? But that’s not an easy…
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A waking dream
On cutting free what was never yours to carry I had a sort of waking dream today. It was a most amazing experience. I had been reading the news and, as is pretty common these days, felt a panic attack coming on. I used a technique I’ve learned to focus on the physical sensations in the…
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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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The Myth of the Bottleneck
Because patience isn’t passive Sometimes Monday afternoon feels like it should be Friday night. Thursday at least. Everything is over-scheduled. The calendar looks like a game of Tetris played by an anxious god: ferry runs, presentations, meetings, and the occasional spiritual ambush disguised as a “networking dinner.” You think the bottleneck is out there —…
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Maps and Money
Learning to see what’s already moving Some days it feels like I’m standing in a blizzard of good intentions. Emails, grant proposals, meeting notes, invitations — all swirling so thick I can’t tell what’s moving and what’s stuck. The world turns white, and it’s hard to tell up from down; forward from backward. I had…
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A Breadcrumb for My Future Self
Listening for the tuning fork note Dec 03, 2025 Roland’s Facebook memory from 11 years ago popped up this morning: “Just back from Pender in what may have been a life-altering experience.” Boy, howdy, was it — and is it. It got me thinking about intuition. We got Zelda, our dog, because of intuition. I…
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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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When we stop pretending – Part I
Disillusionment is a threshold Jan 20, 2026 When the ground starts to slip Something old is ending. Not suddenly. Not cleanly. And not in a way that makes for a satisfying headline. It’s ending the way things usually do in real life: slowly, unevenly, with long stretches of denial punctuated by moments where the floor…
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The Dusty Dimmer Switch
A Soft Apocalypse Survival Tool Nov 19, 2025 Some conversations start as small talk and end up accidentally telling the truth. This one began with me teasing Aiden about his strange workplace. We were just hanging out after we’d worked on a few “business items” together. When I looked around, I could see he lived…
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The Canary and the Ledger
Reciprocity has become one of the most fraught words at the Farmastery. Everyone nods along, but underneath the agreement is a collective flinch — because most of us still reach for a ledger when someone hands us a shovel. But what if the forest’s accounting is older and wiser than ours?
