My First Workshop with Joanna Macy

Well, spending two days with Joanna and participating in the exercises she lead was wonderful. I loved being around all the people, getting to know some of them and generally doing more crying, hugging and looking at people in a deeply engaged and appreciative way. The permission to really connect with each other was, for [...]

Suburban Tree Dialog 6 (Singularity and Cyborg)

Me: I was curious about where our conversation ended during our last talk. I mentioned that I was aware of a lot of talk of cyborgs, human machine hybrids, but no talk of bio-borgs hybrids of animals and plants for instance. I did a little reading via the web to refresh my recollection about what [...]

Suburban Tree Dialog 5 (Behaviorally Modern Human 2)

Me: When we left off our last conversation we had been talking about thinking long ideas and I mentioned I had been thinking of what humans would become if we succeeded in living with power and not destroying our planet at the same time. I think I am ready to talk more about this and [...]

Ideas Have Consequences

I have been writing about

Hope

I hope writing
Survives
Reading too

I hope children
Find a place
To grow
Plants too

I hope water
Survives
For the living
Ebb and Flow
Through
Cell walls

I hope we
Stop
Eating time
Faster
Than it lives us

Of Plants and People

In my mid to late 20

Obama, Edwards, Clintion, and Change

Why is the change message resonating outside the orbit of motivated progressive political activists? I think people have an innate sense that everything is degrading under their feet and they have been lied to and abused by the elites who are represented by the Republican party and PR machine. All Republican marketing/propaganda tactics sound like [...]

Livability, not sustainability, should be our goal

Thinking in terms of sustainability is better than not taking the impact of our actions on our environment seriously, but I think there is a subtle and important fault in looking at the relationship this way. Having grown up in an industrial capitalist economy, most of us unconsciously accept

A Biological Model of Foreign Policy

Couldn’t we have a foreign policy that was based on biology instead of social rank competition. A foreign policy based on biological principals and functions would not abandon self defense, biological entities and processes engage in self defense all the time. A biologically based foreign policy also would not have to avoid resource acquisition and [...]

Love, an Organizing Principal for Human Systems

My original idea of how to define Love as an organizing principal for human systems was formed like this; Love = consciousness of mutually beneficial exchange across semi-permeable boundaries. I thought that would be a good systems oriented working definition.

Now I want to change the systems definition of Love to; Love = Consciousness of existing [...]