Archive of posts tagged climate change

You Are Standing in a Doorway: California, Fall 2020

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My back is to a life passed. A year, maybe more, in liminal space. Waiting. For a vaccine. For better therapeutics. For a political climate to shift. All the while, the actual climate turns against us. The waters rise in the East. Fires rage in the West. My back is to a life passed. Retirement, …

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A Year on the Land: the Walk and the Farm.

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My daughter has spent the year working on a small sustainable urban farm on California’s central coast. She prepared the land, planted, grew, and harvested food, tended to chickens and sheep, and two amazing dogs. This one in particular, Mr. Bluford Jenkins the Third–Blu for short–was her special friend. Blu was a guardian dog, bred …

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