By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 22 Feb 20
Say hello to Alejandra and Esteban.They are friends we have made in the three months living here in Barichara. Yesterday we were invited to dine with them — together with three generations of family members and other friends — feeling welcomed and vibrant as human beings.My family came to Colombia on a quest to discover how to live regeneratively. We want to raise our daughter Elise in an indigenous pattern of deep nature immersion, multi-language and multi-culture perspectives, and supported fully by the nurturance of healthy parents who role-model a life worth living.We also want to raise Elise immersed in large-scale landscape restoration projects. Here in Barichara …
Say hello to Alejandra and Esteban.They are friends we have made in the three months living here in Barichara. Yesterday we were invited to dine with them — together with three generations of family members and other friends — feeling welcomed and vibrant as human beings.My family came to Colombia on a quest to discover how to live regeneratively. We want to raise our daughter Elise …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Dec 19
I walk this ancient road every morning without shoes, to feel the ground directly in contact with my body.Our family arrived in the town of Barichara in Colombia’s northern Andes Mountains with the intention of learning how to live a regenerative life while raising our three-year-old daughter. We know that the Earth is in overshoot-and-collapse. We are deeply aware of the challenges humanity must navigate in the coming century. And we want to be part of the healing that our planet so desperately needs.We were welcomed by a host family — Felipe and Alejandra along with their three young kids — who were about to …
I walk this ancient road every morning without shoes, to feel the ground directly in contact with my body.Our family arrived in the town of Barichara in Colombia’s northern Andes Mountains with the intention of learning how to live a regenerative life while raising our three-year-old daughter. We know that the Earth is in overshoot-and-collapse. We are deeply aware of the …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 3 Dec 19
I would like to share a reflection on this very thoughtful article by my friend Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed summarizing the science of collapse as it relates to the current globalized civilization.For starters, let me say that I find resonance with nearly all that he says and that I encourage others to read it carefully and reflect upon how deeply you might radically change your lifestyle in service to Earth regeneration.Where I find issue with his assessment is the thing I’d like to share — as I hope it will shed new light on this discourse and contribute in a small way to …
I would like to share a reflection on this very thoughtful article by my friend Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed summarizing the science of collapse as it relates to the current globalized civilization.For starters, let me say that I find resonance with nearly all that he says and that I encourage others to read it carefully and reflect upon how deeply you …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 28 Oct 19
Our daughter Elise learning how to live in harmony with natureThe Earth is in overshoot-and-collapse. There are deep systemic threats for the future of humanity. And we have a child who turns three years old in January. How are we supposed to live as a family? This is the learning journey we have been on for the last year.We got rid of nearly all our possessions and moved to Costa Rica — joining an effort to regenerate entire bioregions that was preparing to launch there. This gave us an amazing opportunity to immerse our daughter, Elise, in a biodiversity hotspot on the edge of …
Our daughter Elise learning how to live in harmony with natureThe Earth is in overshoot-and-collapse. There are deep systemic threats for the future of humanity. And we have a child who turns three years old in January. How are we supposed to live as a family? This is the learning journey we have been on for the last year.We got rid of …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 21 Feb 18
This series began in 2015 with an effort to do a broad assessment of the various risks present in the total global environment. Last year (almost precisely 365 days ago), I focused specifically on the political situation in the United States and outlined what I considered to be the essential fronts of a new and important kind of war:In other words, while 2016 still formally looked like politics, what is really going on here is a revolutionary war. For now this is war using memes rather than bullets, but war is much more than a metaphor.This war is about much more …
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This series began in 2015 with an effort to do a broad assessment of the various risks present in the total global environment. Last year (almost precisely 365 days ago), I focused specifically on the political situation in the United States and outlined what I considered to be the essential fronts of a new and important kind of war:In other words, …
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By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 20 Apr 17
How parenting and politics are linkedCan we talk about where stories come from? I think some of them emerge from the dark. The stories that drive us most powerfully were born in the shadows of what we don’t remember. And the strongest story of all may be the one that tells us whether we are alone, or part of something bigger.It turns out that the way we look after babies can give them, as adults, a worldview that they won’t even know they have. That take on the world has huge political consequences. And our own take on the world, which …
How parenting and politics are linkedCan we talk about where stories come from? I think some of them emerge from the dark. The stories that drive us most powerfully were born in the shadows of what we don’t remember. And the strongest story of all may be the one that tells us whether we are alone, or part of something bigger.It …