Now, for everyone expecting this piece to be written by a transgender person I’m sorry to disappoint. The trans body I am singing about can be transgender, but it’s not necessarily. Let me explain why. The body I am talking about is the one that became more obvious through the…

I vividly remember the first time I heard a young farmer talk about the biological principles involved in growing good crops. By tending to soil, the farmer explained, we steward our sliver of Earth. …

Things you learn at a barbecue I recently wrote about the need to reintroduce ourselves to reality. I framed it within the ideas of artistry and what it means to be an artist. What surprised me about saying this directly for people is that I was immediately encouraged to clarify…

“The most important evolutionary events take the longest.” R. Buckminster Fuller. When I first started working with regenerative groups I was tasked with learning about soil and systems underground. For me this was no big deal since I am less than two generations out of the agricultural peasant life. …

Dear Friends, Let’s talk about the state of the world and how humans have made it in the face of their God. Apparently this God is vengeful and greedy and he smites and blights constantly. Now, don’t go getting this God mixed up with his twin brother or sister (we…

Let’s make it a hack Dear Friends, Let us welcome ourselves to this new year we are calling 2022. Though we might be tempted to call it by other names such as the third year of COVID, we will refrain. Anything is possible and escaped bioweapons can easily mutate themselves…

A quick reaction to the NFT craze Everyone has imaginary friends and the NFT craze is an example of that truth. As a child those imaginary friends probably looked a lot like a stuffed toy or some prettier version of yourself. As a teen and adult that imaginary friend was…

Some of it is worse than you think I know too many Hollywood movies can destroy a mind, especially if you take them in fast succession. Sometimes though, you have to go on a crash course of all the things you once avoided. I like movies, don’t get me wrong…

I turned on the news, for maybe the last two minutes of the BBC. It was reliably coming through on WNYC. Some habits die hard and news for me, has to start with New York, including their broadcast of BBC news. …