Walking composition “Intelligence is dormant and its communications are broken, inarticulate and faint until it possesses the local community as its medium.” —John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems, 1927 It’s that time of year… Read more

A long time ago I had a high school history and government teacher who probably forever changed the way I think about the power of identity, especially group identity, in affecting human behavior. In my… Read more

Walking composition “We’ve got a greater part of humanity working on making our social media feeds more persuasive than we have on making clean water more accessible.” —Douglas Rushkoff, Team Human I spent this last… Read more

Walking composition “How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?” —Henry George, Progress & Poverty, 1879 I was sifting through a big pile of index cards recently that contain research notes from… Read more

Walking composition “Land is not land anymore. It’s capital. Two-thirds of the capital in the world is land. It’s all enclosed and it’s owned by not very many people who leverage that capital for debt.”… Read more

Walking composition “If, try as we may, we never have been and never shall be able to see, to reflect the truth in all its eternal fresh-minted clarity, is it not because we are still… Read more

Walking composition “It’s hard to make people understand something if their entitlement is dependent on them not understanding it.” —Derrick Jensen (paraphrasing Upton Sinclair) I finished historian James C. Scott’s book Against the Grain yesterday,… Read more

I wrote an essay recently that I shared with my writing group, noting that it was one “for the vault.” One of the other members came up with that phrase a few years back to… Read more

Walking composition “When bird does wait thy absence long,Nor tend unto its morning song;While thou art searching stoic page,Or listening to an ancient sage,Whose spirit curbs a mournful rage,                                    Forget me not.”—from “Forget Me Not,” Ann… Read more

Walking composition “It has been my experience that I am always true from my point of view, but am often wrong from the point of view of my honest critics.” —Mahatma Gandhi I can’t remember… Read more