Posts published in “Day: December 21, 2016”
If I still believed the things I was told when I was a teenager, barely able to distinguish truth from fiction, I would be as cranked up about a vast liberal conspiracy to control my every action, take my guns away, and teach my offspring to be sexual deviants as the vast majority of Americans. Actually, that’s not exactly correct.
You’d have to be nearly blind, seriously drunk or very stoned to miss the connections. Earlier this month we noticed a Press Democrat article: “Sonoma…
Kelp forests are the most complex and abundant ecosystems on earth, exceeding when they are healthy even tropical rain forests in both the diversity of species and the abundance of individuals. Enormous kelp forests once extended the length of the pacific coast to Alaska stretching out as much as three miles into the ocean. The little fish hide, the big fish lurk and the total ecosystem is extraordinarily diverse complicated and abundant. A kelp forest is a biological miracle.
Last Wednesday night the Community Services District reviewed a draft of a letter to the Planning Department concerning Blackbird Farm’s proposal to increase their allowed…
Short Day;
Montana Maniac;
Emergency Exit;
Train Talk;
Timmy's Dog;
Little Dog;
Caretaker Charged;
Perv Sentenced;
Cairns;
No Grifters;
Yesterday's Catch;
Topsy Turvy;
Come a-Thistling;
Police Reports;
Personal Assistant;
End Times;
Newspaper Readers;
Jew Hating;
Thanks DNC;
Recognizing Palestine;
If Only;
Christmas Poem
This is a tale of two meetings. The first occurred Monday December 12th at Fort Bragg's Town Hall. The main order of business, recognizing outgoing…
Since the election of Donald Trump, I have been haunted by aphorisms. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Everything is connected. There are no accidents. Life is but a dream.
In 1994 I called the Anderson Valley Health Center from a phone connected to a Redwood tree stump. I was in the third year of…
From the beginning of Blackbird Farm in 2013, an unaccredited nonprofit, the 24 "students" brought in for 11 day stays have been housed in yurts - 12 boys in one, 12 girls in another. During the fall a year and a half ago on the one night between outgoing and incoming "students" that none were sleeping on site a very large tree came crashing down, totally destroying one of the yurts.
State officials and cannabis activists at the 13th Annual Emerald Cup in Santa Rosa called for solidarity among farmers, environmentally sound agricultural practices and caution…