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  • Come on People Now, Smile on Your Brother, Everybody get together, got to Love one another Right Now

    This song, written by Chet Powers in 1963 and popularized as heard here by the Youngbloods in 1967 came to mind when I received, in contrast to the many very kind and upbeat…

  • Reckless Driving

    February 2, 2026 Reckless Driving Clare and I had planned to do a walk with our dog pack on Saturday morning early, but I got a text from her saying that she thought…

  • Solar Gain

    Anyone who has spent any time with Jack, especially while in our house in the winter, will hear him wistfully wishing that our passive solar house design, that we actualized in 1982, would…

  • The Wanderer

    I have been in and out of awareness of the Vagus nerve for a long time, and was reminded of its power in the body on one of daughter Ellen’s cleanse calls with…

  • Bingo, We all Win

    This is a line that comes very near the end of Barbara Kingsolver’s book, Pigs in Heaven. This book centers around a situation where a white woman finds a Cherokee 3-year-old in her…