Re-Gain

                            My Work is that of Conservation Our current opportunity is to be more ingenious.  Let's learn from America's most clever champion.  George Washington Carver, was a leader in American resource conservation. Few people in history practiced the idea of thrift by conservation better than George Washington Carver; his philosophy was " Throw nothing away, everything can be used again ." Many knew Carver as the "peanut man" because he transformed this legume into a major agricultural product, but few recognized his greater achievements. Besides the 300 products he developed from peanuts and 118 products from the sweet potato, he developed many new products from waste materials, including recycled oil, and paints and stains from clay. Throughout his life he practiced the ethic of preservation, inventing the science of ersatz, or substitutes. Born into slavery in 1864, orphaned, then bought for the price of a horse, Carver conquered overwh

When go to the source of my emotional pain this lessens it. Saying yes to whatever arises I lighten up.   Being mindful allows me to embrace how mindless I am. I realized appreciatively to  proceed by being kind to myself. Yes we wired to be "there" instead of being "here."  My  l ife experience brings both the meaning in present regardless if its pleasant or not.   In some of my darkest times I seek in another form of hereness- listening.  Also both stillness and insight is a priceless journey. Thoreau exemplified this by stating; Direct your eye inward, and you will find a thousand regions in your mind yet  undiscovered. Travel them, and be an expert in home-cosmography. I lessen  my suffering and tap greater freedom with such introspection. Thoreau recognized  simple contemplation.  Travel is a matter of perspective, not location.  For over 31 years I’ve lived alone in the woods and profoundly experienced this. I came 100  miles west of Washington DC to celebrate

Attention is the beginning of devotion,” the poet Mary Oliver wrote in her final collection of essays.  W e are entering the Darwin Awards since our lack of attention destroying future prospects.  Showing up insure our grandchildren's well being is our number one priority. Never in our history have we more distractions and less wisdom.  While never has more brilliant people lived right now our collective behavior is more mindless than ever.  This is an age of intellectual dishonesty and emotional disability since we ignore our reckless ignorance. Without some honest evaluation of how we can best focus on our future by lessening our impact our very existence will be in question. Awakening to the shortages of fresh water, food and excess people are just of the few indicators of such a conclusion.  Other ecological and economic circumstances support that in years to come sustaining humans will be increasingly dismal. Given such a bleak future picture how can each of us cultivate great