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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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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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When we stop pretending – Part II
Learning to stand together Jan 27, 2026 Part 1 TL;DR Part 1 focused on a simple, direct question: What helps ordinary people stay grounded, capable, and connected when the ground beneath us starts to slip? I propose that our overwhelm in this moment of geopolitical history isn’t because of what’s happening out there so much as trying to…
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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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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?
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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.…
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The Happiness Project
It’s not accidental that our mid-winter celebrations are marked by three related holidays — Solstice, Christmas, and New Years. They symbolically represent the arc of a near-death experience. Imagine our ancestors migrating north from our native African home where mid-winter and mid-summer have little impact on the cycles of life. Suddenly those first explorers to…
