It’s also the Year of the Cat. In both cases, it pays to be prepared — In 1975, I bought my first road bike. It was a “ten speed,” which is what people called bikes with drop handlebars back then. When I hear some songs from the mid-seventies, they make me want to ride my current road bike, which has twenty-two speeds. Examples include “Benny and…

Symbiotica, a passionate close ‘relative’, is a new publication on Medium where you can write to your heart’s content about the natural world. — I have already tagged Kelly Baldwin Heid in the hope that she would get many followers. Kelly is presently living with her family in Germany while studying for her PhD. She writes. “My name is Kelly Baldwin Heid, and I’m a natural urbanist and global urban health professional interested in…

Nora Bateson, Jan 2021 This is one essay in two pieces, like one cupcake in two bites. In the first piece, I am laying out the enormity and near impossibility of systemic change. Something I hope readers will feel in their bellies like a thud. The perpetuation of the existing…

A Regenerate:Hope story, featuring people who dedicate their energy, time, and love to making our planet a better place for all human beings and more-than-human beings — For gardeners and growers, the year begins not with January, but with the start of the growing season. They make plans according to the last frost, to the lunar cycle, to the start of the dry/wet season — what seeds to start indoors, what seedlings to transplant, how many hot…

This is a story about two roads — Should and Must. It’s a pep talk for anyone who’s chosen Should for far too long — months, years, maybe a lifetime — and feels like it’s about time they gave Must a shot — There are two paths in life: Should and Must. We arrive at this crossroads over and over again. And each time, we get to choose. Over the past year I’ve chosen Must again and again. And it was petrifying. And at times it was dark. But I would never, ever…

And you can still read them too — There are apparently over 20,000 new stories published on Medium published every day. But in February, the amount of non-bird-related work didn’t permit me to dive into some of it as much as usual. Or maybe the feed algorithms are playing tricks on me. So here are the 3 articles…

I hate being sober. Everybody talks about how great it is being sober, how clear they feel. How “It’s a struggle, but life is so much better now” and on and on. I’ve been sober for 30 years and it fucking sucks. I think about alcohol every day. …

To scale or not to scale. Whatever you choose, ask the right questions… — Regenerative businesses appear all around us. And everybody who reads my work knows I applaud them. I support them. And I’m part of several teams that create them. They are the future! They are the best way to combine business with purpose. …

Over the past few years so much attention has been given to blockchain-based technology. Its central promise — to decentralize power, collaboration and ownership — is incredible. And yet almost every actual application of web3 community tech I have seen is still pretty unusable and 95% hype. Often the UX…

Quantity and community matter — Social Media are social. That’s the first rule to remember when you start out here with whatever aim. Whether it is being read more often by more people or earning money. Social media are social. And all platforms have their own algorithms and rules. Today, I want to tell you…

Heavily featuring white male fragility displayed through patterns of behaviour that are surprisingly acceptable and relatable through an enforced and acquired palate for colonial hegemony — Coloniser human beings and colonised human beings are very trainable. With the right incentives, training just takes time. A reminder of our contexts White Europeans destroyed their ecocentric indigenous cultures a thousand years ago (“Burn her at the stake!”), pursuing a growth-based empire model centred upon the city of excess consumption for the ruling classes…

This poem has also been recorded as a video at the bottom of this post to aid accessibility I originally wrote this poem in flow state on 3rd Nov 2021 for my previous HEXO Change website, and on reading and feeling it twice again today, I felt moved to share…

I think we definitely are — We are full-flow in the paradigm shift right now. And many of the current happenings are shifting us in the right directions, although we are furious and scared and not amused at all. Me included, I must say. I write my fierce opinions about women’s rights in the USA and…