With the arrival of summer and several other blogging projects, I am noticing my energy shift from this blog. I am not sure how much I will be posting over the next few months, but please check out my other blog projects:
East Bay Alternative Medicine-A collaboration of local alternative medicine practitioners that is just getting [...]

I have been so busy.  My massage practice has been fully booked and is basically fully booked out until I go on a short vacation in February.  On my vacation, I go to the California Bluegrass Association Camp, which I like to affectionately refer to as “band camp”, so it will not be a completely [...]

I just added Wordpress Stats to my toolbag on this blog. I needed to upgrade my site and I had been putting it off . I was running up against technical blocks that I just couldn’t bring myself to face.  Finally, I did it in one fell swoop, staying up until 2am (which for me [...]

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 [...]