Last week, I had the opportunity to tell my buying club’s story to another buying club. This new buying club just started. They had only completed only two buys and were working on their third. Levi and I joined them while they were debriefing after their second buy. They are meeting weekly, by the sounds of it. It was amazing … Continue Reading →
Tonight, I had the opportunity to discuss buying clubs with a newly formed club. They were focused, enthralled, and concentrated on every word I said. It was like I was telling a beautiful fiction they’d never heard, simply focused on everything I had to say. And, to think, I wasn’t even sure on the intent of my being there once … Continue Reading →
Okay narcissistic rants aside – I do enjoy writing every day. As the (over written?) introvert, I do better when I can process. Writing allows me to process. But, what to process? The never-ending balancing act and working towards my deemed purpose. I want to educate people on the importance of a sustainable society. So, I’ve picked volunteer projects, paid … Continue Reading →
It was 2004. The Iraq war had waged on for about a year. I, and my friends, [we] were still in shock over all that happened. He hadn’t listened! We protested. We wrote. We petitioned. We called. We bitched. We complained. We didn’t want another Vietnam. We can’t do that to our people again. We can’t do that to our … Continue Reading →
“I want to educate people on the importance of a sustainable society.” That’s what I want to do with my life. In some shape or form, anything I am doing, I want it to mesh with that belief. The belief that we should live in a sustainable society and we owe it to ourselves to get there. The belief is … Continue Reading →
MAX is getting an addition and a new bridge. Here's the early stages of construction as viewed on my bus.
Nary a day goes by where we don’t hear about another food recall. These food recalls largely involve large industrial food complexes, like confined animal feed operations. I don’t buy from those operations. I buy directly from the farmer. My family eats fairly locally and seasonally. We learn how to preserve our food and make things from scratch, like bread — a lot like my grandparents learned post World War II. We develop relationships with our farmers, our distributors, our producers of the food we eat. We do this to increase our food security. We know where our food comes from. We visit the farms. We know the names of our farmers’ children. We are invested in them, and they are invested in us. Continue Reading →
Previously, a frequent theme has been money and how we spend it. While I was studying at Portland State, Prof. Messer reminded me that Sustainability holds three major tenants, economy, equity, and environment. I have always had a pretty good handle on equity and environment, bu the economy has usually been something that brings me down. But, as I’ve been … Continue Reading →