Warmer & Wetter

The history of hierarchy is a key to understanding civilization’s past and future. For most of human history, our ancestral hierarchies were composed of a small number of geographically and genetically proximate individuals. Nature, habit and tradition predetermined behavior when it came to who was in charge. Parents were and remain civilization’s most important leaders….

Unfortunately, in this respect, Moyers resembles most of us who have no idea how civilization is going to better manage the absence of jobs crisis, which is just beginning, and civilization’s health care cost crisis, which is just beginning.

The darkest auroras linger in our consciousness. Please take a moment to remember this historical fact. Today is the ninety-eighth birthday of the First World War. Less than 100 years ago today, at 11:10 AM on July 28, 1914, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia. The First World War officially began. The aristocracy (King, Emperor…

On a local chat site, a neighbor asks : “I want to plant bamboo. It’s so beautiful. Where can I find some.” Every respondent adamantly offers the same answer. “Don’t do it, because spreading bamboo is uncontrollable!” Here’s my take on bamboo in your garden.  The many warnings about bamboo spreading are absolutely true. Watching new shoots emerge…

Gender goes deep. Yet genders shallows get the fame. Like an ocean defined by waves. Where the fluid depths of reality hold no sway.