Cairns #72 End of the Long Nights – 2013 My mother died this month She lived a life of smiles and grace up to the end at 95. If I had to tell only one story about her, it would…

Cairns 71 Beginning of the Long Nights, 2012 The first rains of California’s winter rainy season were perfect (from a Gaian sense). They were gentle but steady, four or five days apart with warm weather in between so all the…

So on our third day of our wedding anniversary’s five day float down the Willamette River, our kayak snagged and flipped and suddenly Alysia and I were in the water. We had been exploring a side channel of an island.…

Backpacking Class I offered a backpacking class this spring as part of Chrysalis’s Friday afternoon electives. One thing I enjoyed was the way in which the kids began to play with the natural surroundings. I led three different hikes to…

Helping turn the prow of our entropyship, the Earth, back upstream so that Earth’s evolving consciousness may explore the vast headwaters of the Universe for billions of years to come. Cairns of H.O.P.E. #68 End of the Long Nights, 2012 …

Helping turn the prow of our entropyship, the Earth, back upstream so that Earth’s evolving consciousness may explore the vast headwaters of the Universe for billions of years to come. Cairns of H.O.P.E. #67 – Beginning of the Long Nights,…

  Helping turn the prow of our entropyship, the Earth, back upstream so that Earth’s evolving consciousness may explore the vast headwaters of the Universe for billions of years to come. Cairns #65 – Beginning of the Long Days, 2011 …