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The Living Ground We Build

I have been thinking a lot lately about love. Not romantic love necessarily, although that is part of life too, but deeper than that. What does it actually mean to love a life? To love what you are doing? To love the process even when the process hurts sometimes? And …

When Healing Threatens the System – The Business of Dependency

Many systems in modern society are no longer built around creating healthy, independent, resilient human beings because independent people eventually stop feeding the system financially. Over time, systems drift toward dependency because dependency becomes extraordinarily profitable. What happens when entire industries quietly profit from keeping people stressed, searching, consuming, medicated, …

What Mother Earth Teaches about Love

Today is Mother’s Day, and for some women, it is not a day filled with flowers, phone calls, grandchildren climbing into their laps, or family gathered around a table. For some mothers, it is a day of silence. That silence echoes loudly because the world often assumes mothers and children …

The Living Ground of Ecuador Book Has Arrived

The book is now available on Amazon. Digital Copies are available too After years of writing, walking the mountains and forests of Ecuador, sitting with plants, listening to local knowledge, building gardens, studying the soil microbiome, and witnessing how deeply connected human health is to the living world around us, …

Ecological Memory

There was a time, once upon a time, when human beings lived in much deeper relationship with the living world. I do not care whether your ancestry traces back through French villages, Corsican mountains, Scottish highlands, African grasslands, Andean valleys, or migrations so layered you can barely untangle them anymore. …

Remembering Jim, Living Forward

Today is Jim’s birthday. Happy heavenly birthday!!! I woke up with him on my mind in a way that feels close. I wish he was here everyday. Sure, there is a weight to this day, but there is also something steady and present that I carry inside me. After 5 …

The Ecology of Modern Disease

What I keep coming back to lately is how much modern medicine resembles industrial agriculture. The parallels are becoming difficult for me to ignore. In both systems, something unwanted appears, spreads, or becomes destructive, and the response involves increasingly aggressive intervention. Companies develop stronger chemicals. Doctors prescribe more suppressive therapies. …

When the Brain Thinks the Body Is Starving

Understanding Leptin Resistance and Restoring the Metabolic Conversation For many people, losing weight feels like an endless battle. They eat less, exercise more, and try one diet after another, only to find themselves constantly hungry, craving food, and eventually gaining the weight back. After enough failed attempts, it becomes easy …

Walking Through Understanding

There is a point where living naturally, thinking independently, and learning to trust your own perceptions can become something deeply beautiful. It can reconnect us to intuition, observation, the body, the land, and the quieter intelligence woven through life that modern culture often trains us to ignore. I know this …