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Read MoreLet’s Give Them a Better Deal
We may not be weathering the storm. I love the tone of this statement about future generations. It was made by Republican Charles Howell III in a 2004 event hosted by the Center for the National Interest, broadcast by CSPAN. Howell III’s words and are to me both down-to-earth folksy and street-smart, straight-talk direct. Of…
Read MoreThe Sun Logo and Colors
The future changes every day. Day for Descendants hopes to improve future conditions for people and places. For better or worse today’s actions change the future. The sun logo and its black background represent a few related ideas: -The sun is a source of life and provides a paradigm for sustaining our relative biological life…
Read MoreChildren & Seven Generations Commitment
Reprinting Pario-From-the-Field Blog Post August 3, 2008 Joseph Chilton Pearce says that if we raise children in a nourishing, loving, and skill building manner, most of society’s problems can be cured in two generations of remediation. Our modern lives make this quite a challenge, with our need to work an extraordinary amount in order to…
Read MoreDia De Los Muertos 2021
Day of the Dead altar building plus my work in sustainability led me to the idea of Day for Descendants altar celebrations connecting our lineages + legacies. Hopefully growing awareness and better decisions for the future (and us now!).
Read MoreCore of Day for Descendants Intentions & Altars
How Simple Awareness Might Help Change Everything With Day for Descendants Intentions and Altars, we hope to provide a link between— Knowledge that climate change and other environmental threats are worsening and already generating tremendous cost and suffering >>> >>> Needs to better connect with >>> >>> Our daily actions and choices that affect these…
Read MoreWhy Do We Believe What We Believe?
”The idea that you would continue to believe something that you know to be wrong sounds rather odd, but of course, this is exactly what we observe during magical thought processes.” –Gustav Kuhn
Read More‘Blended’ — My Path, It’s Entry Points, and an Ode to My Teachers
With Gratitude I’ve always liked looking at drawings, especially old master figurative. I consider this curiosity the seed of my work in art. Three Early Influences I found myself steeped in art in San Francisco. Art expression and interpretation first entered my thinking when I was at Diablo Valley College in John Spence Weir’s photography…
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