A journey into ancient history guides the modern spirit — Interviewing Manda Scott the other day was literally a dream come true. For the last few weeks, each night before I go to bed, I have been taken on a wild journey by way of her Boudica series. As I drift off to sleep my mind is flooded with vivid…

A conversation with author Patty Krawec — I had the great pleasure of speaking with author Patty Krawec about how she came to accidentally write one of the most important books of our time, Becoming Kin — An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future. From serendipitously listening to conversations about race, to what…

Beautiful story-telling by Kristin Ohlson brings us home to our mutualistic roots — Lately I’ve noticed the theme of mutualism coming up a lot. This notion, that we are all part of a symbiotic dance, is coming in waves, washing away the mythical belief in the “survival of the fittest”, revealing an awareness that “it takes a village”. And the village is willing. …

The revealing journey in “A Walking Life”, a book by Antonia Malchik — A walk in the park: more than a walk in the park I thought Antonia Malchik’s book, A Walking Life would be a nice light read — a walk in the park, if you will. I was wrong. Or rather, I was reminded that a walk in the park is actually a profound, important, and often overlooked element of our humanity. Walking…

Remember going on those school field trips — the kind where you were outside all day, walking on woodsy trails with your classmates, listening to a knowledgeable stranger in a patch of woods that was a bus ride away? Remember hearing amazing factoids about that patch of nature, such as…

As I was reading Kristin Ohlson’s The Soil Will Save Us (Rodale Books, 2014), I kept having flashbacks to a famous scene in the 1967 film The Graduate. In the scene, Mr. McGuire, a family friend of the recently graduated and somewhat adrift Benjamin, played by Dustin Hoffman, offers candid…

A Documentary About Regenerative Agriculture — In my work I come across the theme of “emergence” a great deal. This is a fairly broad term and I think it’s worth embracing its breadth right off the top before we dive into a wonderful foray into regenerative agriculture put forth in a new documentary film. …