I’ve actually made a lot of mistakes, and seemly continue to do so, and probably will until I’m very dead. The specific mistake I’m referring to is teenager-esqe arrogance. Somehow it carried through until just very recently. I don’t have the answers… I never...

My first book, The Sharp Knife of Forced Simplicity, Volume 1: The Numinous Rebellion was published almost exactly three years ago. I’ve learned a lot in that time. I’ve learned how the publication process works – at least with a certain business model of publishing. I...

 [We apparently have to have a talent show for our Permaculture class. Being rather talentless, I was somewhat inspired to write a poem (in a poor imitation of Blake). I don't write poems often (or at all), and again, this is obviously the first draft of a rough idea... but here ya...

I wonder why the word “nature” is used to describe such radically different things. One definition includes all the trees, rocks, grass, water, animals, sands… those places and things which are least touched by mankind. But another definition is used to describe the inner behavior of...

I finished Utopia by Sir Thomas More last night.   I really enjoyed it! Not so much for the practicality of it (it was written in the 1500′s, after all), but for the somewhat radical ideas put forth… and very interesting. For a man who’s drive is to create a new society,...

Say hello to Baseeka! Basica? Not sure how to spell it. She’s the new SLC mouse-eater/mascot!