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Greetings Friends and Neighbors, I am writing a book that tells a story of giving food away at Brush Brook Community Farm. While that Farm project has…

Mar 21

February 2023

Warm, late-winter Sun casts Snow in yellow-gold. But the shadows ache, blue and cold. Old man Winter has arrived, finally, just as Sap was beginning to…

Feb 25

Greetings Friends and Neighbors, As I close in on the final chapters of the first draft of the book, the following sentences just emerged as a way of…

Feb 5

January 2023

Greetings Friends and Neighbors, The following is an addendum to my recent Letter to my friend Sam. The series goes by the name The Anarchist and the…

Jan 29

Greetings Friends and Neighbors, This is the fifth in a series of letters back and forth between myself and my friend Sam Bliss, which we have titled…

Jan 27

Greetings Friends and Neighbors, I miss my friend Sam dearly, and so I was glad to receive this letter in the mail(electronic mail) with a photo…

Jan 10

I think I was afraid to write a book because I had a hard time believing that there was anything out there beyond the ego. The last thing the world…

Jan 8

Johanna took this photo three weeks ago, around the time the last Newsletter came out. Since then, the string of holly-days—or is it holy days, or…

Jan 7

December 2022

Greetings Friends and Neighbors, Snow falls audibly today. No, that’s not quite right. Snow falls silently but lands loudly today. Working with Arianna…

Dec 19, 2022

Greetings Friends and Neighbors, The mood of the landscape this past week has been decidedly austere, even severe. What we call “Fall” in the North…

Dec 6, 2022

November 2022

Greetings Friends and Neighbors, This is the third installment in a series of letters written back and forth between two heartbroken activists…

Nov 28, 2022

Greetings Friends and Neighbors, If you missed last week’s Letter, Radical Hospitality, you might want to read, or listen, to that one first. That piece…

Nov 22, 2022

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