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  February 11, 2007


Dave & Cassie
Picnic with my granddaughter, June 2002, photo taken by my daughter

What I'm planning on writing about soon:

  • Finding & Working With Others to Save the World: Ways to enable billions to sync with us, on their own terms, in their own context, developing their own plan of action, and then to connect and collaborate in powerful ways, in experiments and in creating and refining working models in their own self-selected Earth-stewarding intentional communities, so that they no longer need the systems that are destroying our world.
  • What's Holding Us Back: Our modern society's three-way tension between falling into the Centre, progressing to the Edge, and just giving up.
  • Seismic Shifts of Worldview: The collective change of mind that seems to be spreading everywhere, even among conservatives and those afflicted by anomie. There's something happening here.
  • The Fourth Turning: The coming era of repression and violent reactionary tyranny?
  • The New Agenda: Kunstler's proposal that we begin thinking of entirely new and sustainable ways of living, and of doing everything differently, starting right now.
  • More on Workarounds: The only way anything important actually gets done?
  • Religion as a Form of Slavery: And technophilia as the fastest growing religion of them all.

What I'm thinking about:


What would I be doing 10-15 hours per week if I wasn't blogging?

So what's on your mind this week?

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