by Tim “This is our retirement plan.” She’s serious. We’ve just carried baskets full of pots and pans, kitchenware, odds and ends, up into the jungle to a seasonal shelter called a ghote. We carried them in the traditional way, on... Continue Reading →
by Tim Situated on the top of the world, let’s imagine the Himalayas to be the Earth’s head. Inside that head is the world’s brain or, more accurately, its mind-body. Cut into this earthly mind-body are countless caves where mystics... Continue Reading →
by Shannon You don't meet people like Jonny every day. He's a man who has dedicated the past 12 years of his life to the cat community in the small, jungle town of Minca, Colombia. Currently he has 46 feline... Continue Reading →
48 drips per minute. The sugar water fills a bucket, pulled upwards from root storage in mid-winter. A single tap, in an approximately 1/2 inch hole, is one pin-prick in the girth of this ancestor maple. These two that I... Continue Reading →
Patiently, methodically, stretching and folding the dough, feeling the texture in my fingers, sticking to my cuticles. It feels right, a bit shaggy and damp, but reasonably formed. Fermented in the pantry for 12 hours, then on the hanging rack... Continue Reading →
Shannon first introduced me to the adage that "a river flows between banks" many years ago. She was describing the need for a clear container in transformational education experiences. But the adage extends beyond the watershed of education and into... Continue Reading →
Village shopping is a delightfully inefficient practice rendered obsolete by grocery stores. Shopping in the old world sense, or perhaps even the way shopping can still happen in parts of New York or San Francisco. It is just called shopping,... Continue Reading →
We traveled from Nepal to Thailand a little over a week ago. From Bangkok we immediately caught the train north to Chiang Mai, curious to check out Pun Pun - Center for Self Reliance. We had heard wonderful things about... Continue Reading →
It takes a village To do what, exactly? To raise a child. Yes? What do you mean, to “raise a child”? Well, to feed it, to shape it in line with your values and worldview, to give the parents a... Continue Reading →
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