Temple Burn 2011

In August of 2011, 50,000 people converged on the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for a radically self-reliant community experience like no other... "Burning Man - Rites of Passage." While ...

A Fair Trade

Today Treesh and I traded in our vacation emergency car (the 2000 Chevy Suburban with it's on-demand four-wheel drive, V8 engine, 3 passenger seats and all that cargo space) for ...

On the Way to Burning Man…

A funny thing happened on our way to Burning Man... Brigid, our 17-year-old Chevy S10 pickup, suffered catastrophic engine failure while going 75mph on I-80 about 20 miles east of ...

The Imagined World

All the world is exactly and entirely as we have imagined it to be. That sounds so ordinary, but it is not. The "we" I speak of is everybody, all ...

Getting Better

If we tend to think things are going from bad to worse, this video is clearly the antidote. Hans Rosling's global health video -- "200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes" ...

J2BAM Fail

My friend Patrick Griffin has published an excellent article titled "For Heaven's Sake People... Don't Be Afraid to Talk When Things Go Wrong!" It's all about the lack of communication ...

Harry Potter and the The Drizzler of Applesauce

I thought I had seen all the Harry Potter movies. After all, my sweetie is a big fan and has them all on DVD. And we've gone to see them ...

Simple Business

This post is about the simple process of business startup -- spending money to make money. Some say it is possible to make money without spending any money, and frankly ...

Inside and Outside

"The world around you is the world inside you. They are not two things. You (in there) are the world (out here)." ~ Tame Bear Seeing the ultimate indivisibility of all things ...

The Incentive to Help Others

IMPORTANT UPDATE - Monday July 11, 2011: I have been in close communication with members of my upline and there is considerable concern about the viability of the membership program ...