green – Life in the Multiverse

On Solar Power

Everything lives by the light. It sounds like a religious statement. Maybe it is mine. My mother sometimes jokes that she is part plant because her personal rhythms are so affected by light cycles. It’s a truth we deny to our peril.

Life Will Out

Life is the dandelion in the sidewalk crack that shrivels under a spray of Round-Up and then shoots up a new stalk next day, the lichen on the headstone, the bacterial bloom in the holding tank. It is tiny and mighty and everywhere. The sublime is underfoot.

Confessions of a Thrift Hound

One of the virtues of decreased resources is increased resourcefulness. When I hit college, my finances got a little dire, so I started poking around the local thrift stores. Part of the appeal was not only the student-friendly price-tags, but the stylistic idiosyncrasy, the library of oddball castoffs. I never knew what I would find,Continue reading “Confessions of a Thrift Hound”

Less is Less

For five of our seven years in Alaska, Matt and I lived in a dry cabin. This means we did not have running water. This means we had to haul our own from town and learn to really conserve what we used. This also means we used an outhouse and had no shower. Thank goodness,Continue reading “Less is Less”

Occam Goes Razorless

Part of the quest to find more just ways to live with the others whose lives and being permeate our own is to make adjustments in my life that acknowledge and respect those others. For me, this means developing some new habits that use more renewable resources, and fewer of them, and to produce lessContinue reading “Occam Goes Razorless”