Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
There are moments in history when change appears impossible right before it suddenly becomes inevitable. There is an old idea often referred to as the “100th monkey effect.” The story suggests that once enough individuals within a group learn a new behavior, the knowledge somehow spreads rapidly through the whole …
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 …
Researchers in India found that tulsi may help reduce fluoride levels in water naturally. This article explores fluoride exposure, the pineal gland, the microbiome, and the deeper relationship between soil, plants, water, and human health.
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, …
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, …
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. …
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 …
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. …
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 …
There is a principle I was raised with that never left me, even when I questioned everything else around it. It was simple in its wording, but not simple in its depth. What you do to others is done to you. In my younger life as a child, this was …