Weird things happen when a whole way of life ends for an entire culture of people.  Like around the time when America drove the Golden Spike, connecting the railroad from sea to shining sea. That was when the entire Great Plains was a Buffalo Highway and all the tribes who lived there depended on buffalo [...]

  The collapse of our current industrial way of life is characterized by inversions and reversals. What was once up is now down, what was in is now out; the new green is old brown after all. Consider the following three vocations (although we now prefer job for one colored collar, career for the other) and remember [...]

Once upon a time, the American Dream was 40 acres and a mule, just enough land to grow your own and get by. Thousands of people aspired to farming, not as a career choice, but as a way of life. The best form of freedom was bound to a sweet piece of ground. Today less than 4% of [...]

Time was, a rose was a rose, and an apple was an apple. They came from someone’s plants long before money came along to insinuate itself into the deal. No labels, no sticker, no barcode; just plants.  So I’m wondering, when you picked a rose or plucked an apple, was it considered to be an economic activity? How [...]

Ponder for more than a moment any one of our current global predicaments, and you might well come to the conclusion that there are simply too many people on this planet, that over- copulation of the humans is one of the great causes of pollution, disease, turmoil and extinction of species.  And though we’ve caused an [...]