A long tradition in literate cultures, commonplace books (as they are known in England) point to the human need to acquire and notate life as it happens. Writers are heavily weighted in the world of commonplace books. Their love…

I am in the process of writing an essay about habits. Many of my habits are of no use to me yet they continue to plague me. My attempts to change my habits are met most often with discomfort on…

I noticed a mama cardinal swoop up to the chain link fence and then hop into the top most part of my over-ambitious rose bush. I looked closer and saw that there was a nest hidden behind the ovate leaves,…

May the words of love reach you and fluster your held self, The way a silhouette of breeze Excites a meadow. When you are touched, May it be the gentleness you desire, Your lover’s hands sending Each caress deep into…

Karla McLaren changed my life 7 years ago with a book she wrote called Your Aura and Chakras. The practices she outlined helped me firm up energetic and emotional boundaries that had been weak to non-existent for most of my…

Earth is a Solar Powered Juke Box–Gordon Hempton Acoustic ecologist, it’s not a job you ever heard about at career fairs in high school. Thankfully the world is full of people willing to create work outside the career fair list…

You know someone owns the rights to Happy Birthday. That means every time you sing it, someone is supposed to make some pennies from it. They can’t yet make us pay ASCAP fees in our homes, but this is the…