(This post first appeared in May of 2015 on Linkedin as part of a national project. Since it’s the new year and many of us take time to reflect, I thought I would offer it to my friends who are fighting for climate justice.) I was setting up camp [...]
On Friday, my neighbor Kerry was packing her old Subaru. She and her husband were getting a divorce. Selling the place. I went out to say goodbye. There’s always a little bit of awkwardness when discussing divorce. What do you say? Congratulations? Lucky, no kids? She said she was [...]
A blinding blue sky arcs the vault above me. I am tethered to the earth by my imagination of gravity and a mass of billion year-old anorthosite forming the Sawtooth mountains. Glaciers have tried to erase these mountains and left them old and rounded like me. A cool high [...]
A couple of my grandsons are at the age where the word “nuts” makes them giggle. I show them a road-killed squirrel as a subtle message to look when they cross the street. “Are those his ‘nuts’?” they laugh. The problem with squirrels is the other kind of nuts. [...]
I grab the cute raccoon pup by the scruff of the neck and think I’m about to drop him into a pillow case. The pup has a different idea. He turns inside his skin and begins to rip my arm to shreds while shrieking with ear-splitting screams. At the [...]
As an earthwalker, I am simply passing through the world. I am fascinated by each step. Watching and observing, the world and nature. Chaos and quiet, light and dark. To me the rhythm of the world is a meditation in itself. Last night I listened to an opera: two [...]
The following post is Part 2 of a 3 part series. The events occurred in August, September and October of 2016 and are being published now as all charges against me in the DAPL water protection recently have been dropped. These post are longer in length because I believe the [...]
The following post is Part 1 of a 3 part series. The events occurred in August, September and October of 2016 and are being published now as all charges against me in the DAPL water protection recently have been dropped. These post are longer in length because I believe the [...]
Black smoke. Armored vehicles. Pepper spray. 300 helmeted police in riot gear. Helicopters. Nightsticks. Snipers. Bean bags. Rubber bullets. Sound cannons. Cell phone jamming. Drums. Sage. Prayers. 300 unarmed peaceful water protectors. Tobacco. Tribal elders. Song. Blockade. Crossing Minnesota, I don’t yet realize what I am driving into. The [...]
I climb the starboard ratlins and ease out onto the yard to unfurl the mains’l. My feet swing back and forth on a single footline. Working with my hands free, I am balanced on my stomach over the yard, making me wish I had a prehensile tail. The sail [...]
