Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
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 …
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, I have finally released my newest book. “The Living Ground of Ecuador: …
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 …
I have been sitting with something growing inside me, and I have chosen not to call it a disease. I will not give it that word, because I understand how language shapes perception, and I am not willing to hand over that kind of power. What is happening in my …
There is a strange disconnect in the modern world that becomes impossible to ignore once you begin to follow anything back to its source. We speak about energy as if it comes from outlets, fuels, labels, or measured quantities in capsules and powders, yet none of that reflects where energy …
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