The "Escape the thought police" game When I was a child of perhaps nine years old, my best friend, also named Debbie, and I used to play an odd game called “Escape the Thought Police.” Bear in mind that this was the mid-60s and though we were both reading at adult level by that age, … Continue reading Be Unpredictable: Smash the Algorithm (and AI Too)!
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Healing and Redemption in the Alaskan Wild: A Review of On Heaven’s Hill, a novel by Kim Heacox
Kim Heacox’s latest novel On Heaven’s Hill is a vividly written tale of healing and redemption through connection with nature in the wild rainforest of Southeast Alaska. It is a multi-layered story with complex and sympathetic characters—one of them a wolf, the courageous and clever young male Silver. Magic weaves itself throughout the narrative and several subplots about community and compassion.
No Escape: How it Feels to Nearly Die of Heat Stroke
Once you’ve come near death from heat stroke, you will never be the same. Every year since 1982 the last days of July herald a creeping PTSD unsettledness that lurks at the boundary of my consciousness.
Solastalgia: Grieving Many Paradises Lost
I have a home I love in an environment I am deeply grieving.
None of This Had to Happen
Meditation and prayer help, but even after 30+ years of practice I can’t currently seem to sustain the feeling of calm non-attachment the way I used to before times were so relentlessly hard.
Dorjee Purr-ba—My Inspiration for Georgie the Weather Menders Time-Traveling Cat
My beloved cat Dorjee Purr-ba, who was the model and inspiration for Georgie the time-traveling cat in Weather Menders, leaped fearlessly into the Light on March 2nd.
The Land that Rain Forgot
Full disclosure: I am a pluviophile. That means that I love rain, in all forms. I love monsoon downpours, steady rain pattering on the roof, misty seaside rains, even dull drizzles on endlessly gray days.
What are you Grieving? The Goddess Isis Weeps
What are you grieving? Who among us is not grieving someone, something, or many things and people?
Why a Climate Healing Meditation Now?
Even as we enter the second year of a pandemic, the climate emergency continues unabated, with 2020 either setting a new record or tying for the warmest year on record, depending on who is measuring and their specific methods. Since the start of the pandemic we’ve seen record fires in Australia, California, and Siberia, record … Continue reading Why a Climate Healing Meditation Now?
The Year the World Disappeared: Gratitude and Honest Grief Are the Paradoxical Catalysts for Transformation
In this pandemic year of repeated shrilling alarms of climate emergency, what are you grieving the most? As this strangest of years comes to a welcome close, I am finding that grief and gratitude are a paradox I must hold daily. Nine months into the particular nightmare of the pandemic, I still wake up each … Continue reading The Year the World Disappeared: Gratitude and Honest Grief Are the Paradoxical Catalysts for Transformation
Weather Menders 