The Solarpunk ideal is a resistance to the idea that things are ever “just the way they are.” We can always make changes for the better. A practical mode of bettering ones life, the Solarpunk ideal is the realization that a resistance needs to ignite, a resistance to the idea that “things are just...
I was one of those young men who thought that Pride and Prejudice was the last thing I wanted to experience. But, oh, how I was wrong. I had accepted the prevailing masculine norm of my culture without realizing it; I had become colonized by thoughts which were not my own....
We do not want to lay down a pattern or type to which men of all sorts are to be made by some means or another approximate. Political and social institutions are to be judged by the good or harm that they do to individuals. Do they preserve self-respect?...
On November thirteenth, members of the Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) issued a decision on a crisis. Given what we know of the impacts of climate change, it is quite likely that California will continue to see many devastating fires in the years ahead, and schools need to be ready for tha...
This is not an article tackling all the many broad issues, nor even those which I usually mention. No, this is a different sort of article. It comes to me, as the November 6th election day draws to a close, that there is a substantial problem with the voting mindset in the United States, one which...
As the world changes, as capitalism shows its true face, as the climate cycles falter and shift, we need to concentrate on two things. As the world changes, as capitalism shows its true face, as the climate cycles falter and shift, we need to concentrate on two things....
Able to pour my heart and my soul into those 50,000 words, I brought my confused and crazy life into some sort of alignment. Able to pour my heart and my soul into those 50,000 words, I brought my confused and crazy life into some sort of alignment. For the first time in what felt like a lifetime,...
You’ve heard it before: Poor people don’t work because they’d rather do drugs and fornicate with themselves. But is this really true? You’ve heard it all before: “Hard work is good for you. The people who don’t work are lazy. Poor people don’t work because they’d rather do drugs and fornicate with...
Aikido can change your life… and the world. “The purpose of the Art of Peace is to fashion sincere human beings; a sincere human being is one who has unified body and spirit, one who is free of hesitation or doubt....
With Haiku, a self-nurturing could begin, albeit so close to his own death. Wright offers his perspective, his own loneliness, and his own desire for wholeness within three simple lines of poetry, allowing us to know him intimately at his most vulnerable and his most human....
How many times in our life do we decide to do something based, solely, off of what other people are going to think of us? It’s tempting, isn’t it? “If you just market yourself correctly, you’ll make the big bucks!“ How many times do we decide to do something based off of what other people are going...
There are limitless options for storytelling, if you set your mind to it. Have you ever wondered what the future might be like? And I am not talking about the future of tomorrow or next week; I’m talking about the future of our species, our civilization; our world....
Why teenagers should be allowed to vote for the good of the country. The Republic is flailing rather wildly as we enter the first quarter of the 21st century and, to the eyes of many, the future is far from secure. It seems clear that we need all hands on deck....
I am irritated. I am irritated by the man in the silver Porsche who drove through the T-lane intersection ahead of me today at 50MPH. I am…...
How we can become better empaths in a thoughtless age — for the betterment of ourselves and everyone around us....