Over the years, I have participated in many collective working and living projects.  Several years ago, I was recruited by a group called the Matchbook Learning Project. We sponsored classes for adults in the anarchist community.  The vision was a way to keep people in community in times of life that it is harder to […]

This is both a true story of what occurred on an amazing day hiking with my friend Santa Cruz Bill. At the same time I realized that I had to leave a 9-5 office job that was making me unhappy.
…and the butterfly soars again
The web was wrapped so tightly around her small body
That […]

Describe your project.
To make available a lifestyle option of the forest renunciate-one that hasn’t emerged in our culture, yet-but includes living outside of the economic system. I, too, am doing a zine and came up with three points that are important to looking at the forest renunciate. One is that they live outside of […]

Hakim Bey From Boundary Violations The new catchphrase “multiculturalism” simply hides a form of ethnic cultural cleansing under a semantic mask of liberal pluralism. Multiculturalism is a means of separating one culture from another, for avoiding all possibility of cross-cultural synergy or mutuality or communicativeness. At best multiculturalism provides the Consensus with an excuse to […]

One of my favorite things is seeing weeds climb up the middle of street signs, morning glory taking over telephone poles, and tree roots warping pavement. Grass growing through the cracks in sidewalks.
These are gardens of resistance. Life is strong enough to flourish and overtake the difficult conditions that civilization has created for it. Things […]

Passion (freedom)
Lived poetry has shown throughout history, even in partial revolts, even in crime…that it is the protector par excellence of everything irreducible in mankind, that is to say, of creative spontaneity. The will to unite the individual and the social, not on the basis of an illusory community but on that of subjectivity-that is […]

Human social systems and technology are not capable and never will be capable of understanding land on a large scale in a sustainable fashion.
Where does the desire for understanding foreign lands come from? A desire to understand the other. To participate in, specifically to dominate, the exotic…By understanding the scale of […]

“All systems are necessarily abstractions, and all generalization violates the living reality of the individual”-Bakunin
“When People are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called ‘The People’s Stick’.”
My history is strongly rooted in the working class.  I think I get my radical tendencies from my father who was a […]

“I’m not speaking to Pamela,” said Beezus.
“Why not?” Ramona often yelled at people, but never refused to speak. Nothing could happen if you didn’t speak, and she liked things to happen.
-from Ramona Forever by Beverly Cleary

“Addiction can show us what is deeply suspect about nostalgia.  The drive to return to the past isn’t an innocent one.  It’s about stopping your passage to the future, it’s a symptom of fear of death, and the love of predictable experience.
And the love  of predictable experience, not the drug itself, is the major damage […]