The bitter and the sweet

Dinah Washington’s “This Bitter Earth” mixed with British composer Max Richter’s “On the Nature of Daylight” for Martin Scorsese’s film Shutter Island.  (Thanks, Arlene Goldbard.)...

Hope for 2012

At the end of December 2011, I asked a few friends and colleagues to send me stories and links that prove we can heal the earth, our society and our lives. I invited people who keep track of things like this — signs of a paradigm shift away from destruction. I...

My 2012 New Year’s Resolution

Today I started on my 2012 resolution: buy local. This isn’t about PC food rules, it’s about making sure as much of my spending money as possible goes into the economy of our little village and surrounding farms. I bought all our food for the next week...