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One of the interesting things about these disruptions of democracy is how many of the hooligans are older.  Most are on Medicare, many are eligible for, and use, the VA.  Both are government programs with few critics other than the terminally ideological.  Both are superior to the private alternatives.  Yet these ignorant beneficiaries of government…

I have long been intrigued by the fact that so many religious traditions have believers who, like me, are a part of that tradition because of powerful personal spiritual encounters.  Mine was a close encounter with a Goddess at a Midsummer Sabbat many years ago.  Christians tell of their conversion experiences.  Practitioners of African diasporic…

In early 2000 I had completed a manuscript on salmon and sustainability, learning in the process never to eat anything from a salmon farm.  I was planning another manuscript on forest conservation and some more articles on democracy as an emergent order.  Those latter would have been very abstract ‘social sciencey’ stuff for the most…

Our Lammas ritual was the best I have attended in years.  Among its many charms was a song we sang: The Harvest, by Rick Hamouris.  It really captures the spirit of the time for me, and I pass it along.
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