Monthly Archives: August 2017

Wendell Berry: “We are now involved in a profound failure of imagination.”

I hereby call the bedrock understanding of Wendell Berry’s immensely articulate essay the deep background to all that we are doing/feeling/thinking/imagining here in Green Acres Village, as well as to all that I personally am doing and thinking and dreaming … Continue reading

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Did Hurricane Harvey just deepen America’s responsiveness to crisis?

Did we just turn a corner, redirecting all that energy surging through us now from hatred to love? ‘  It may just be that the wonderful, human-helping-human (and animals) stories from Houston have eclipsed the MSM media driven stories of … Continue reading

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Evil Joke? Hurricane Harvey hits Louisiana on 12th anniversary of Katrina

Still think Hurricane Harvey is an accident? An Act of God? A naturally occurring disaster? Think again. To me, the final disgusting fact is that  it hits Louisiana on the 12th anniversary of Katrina. Wow! What evil brilliance, to sow … Continue reading

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Beyond Chris Hedges, take two: “All love at Ocean Beach”

And please read the comments from Cindy, Rich, and Alex under the first “Beyond Chris Hedges” post. I remember that Chris Hedges once put up a post on permaculture and local solutions. The ideas excited him. I wonder if he … Continue reading

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Beyond Chris Hedges: Let us focus imagination in the direction of the GOOD

While I did choose to post the entire article by Chris Hedges, and am still exceedingly grateful for his clarity, experience in war zones, and historical references, even so, I would like to widen and deepen our perspective to include … Continue reading

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Chris Hedges: Behind divisive identity politics of both Alt-left and Alt-right is the same lust for violence

So grateful for this article! Thank you Chris Hedges. It’s exactly what we need to recognize right now. Rather than take sides, and “hate” our opponents, let us stand in our integrity. We recognize the suffering caused by predatory corporatism … Continue reading

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End August, begin September: Transit Mars and Mercury ignite the 29° Leo Total Eclipse

Trump’s speech on Afghanistan felt like capitulation. Was it? Meanwhile, check this out, a Breitbart article: Projecting weakness, President Trump allows inner circle to publicly disparage him as globalists march Remember:  The August 21 2017 Great American Total Eclipse, at … Continue reading

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A.K. Reader: Saturn/Uranus in Sagittarius, Conceptual Repatterning, Part V

This is the final installment of a series that I wrote and published in a small astrological magazine one full cycle of Saturn ago, 30 years ago, in 1987, when, as now, Saturn moved back and forth in late Sagittarius, … Continue reading

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