You’re invited to a beautiful day in the country, with some good work and a feast at the end. The weather forecast is cool (low 70’s) with showers tapering off around 11 am – perfect for the weeding projects. The general plan: 11-5 followed by supper. (snack breaks and creek visits as needed) Please tell […]

I’m reaching out to ask for chanting and prayers for the protection of northern Minnesota. Here’s the story: I went outside to visit the Central Altar – a magnificent rock face at the creek, with dozens of faces that sometimes show themselves. What offering to make? Sometimes I chant the Dai Hi Shin Dharani; the […]

Over 2000 people gathered in northern Minnesota June 5-8 to protect land, water, and treaty rights against Enbridge Energy’s Line 3. Over 200 of us were arrested in the process, and hundreds stayed at Camp Fire Light, at the place where Enbridge plans to drill under the Mississippi River near its very beginning. Now the […]

Spring has burst forth in the past two weeks. Everything in me welcomes it. So today  just this, with Wendell Berry:   “The Peace of Wild Things” When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives […]

I wanted to post spring flowers and updates on the garden. But too much is happening here. I was following the processes at Line 3, the not-yet-approved pipeline that is being built rapidly anyway, to take tar sands oil through Minnesota to a Wisconsin refinery for export. Indigenous-led resistance is meeting harsh police action, paid […]

As we weary of the pandemic and look forward to spring – forgive my rambling. And note the recording and the events at the bottom of the page. A gunman has shot and killed ten people in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. Less than a week earlier a gunman shot and killed eight people in […]