"What if the problem is not that there's something wrong with our heads, but with the systems in which we live? What if the very act of framing distress as disease is part of how these systems sustain themselves? bennetzelner.com/essays/what-...

We've got your t-shirts for your kids, just in today. Jordan Colton and Dace James are in on our Fertile Mountain jokes about Camp Earnest. Many moments and memories these last few days when they absolutely thrilled and delighted our son.

We call these "family walks," almost a mile out and back to Karin's Cairn, at the path that leads down to our biggest waterfalls.

After a run, workout and breakfast at Chug's we made our only visit to Bill Baggs beach on Key Biscayne.

Good People, After a long time in development, our gorgeous new GP Dinners website is live! www.gpdinners.com/private-dini... Please have a look and if you feel inspired, repost it yourself with your own reflections.

Karin's keen eye spotted these MAMMOTH oyster mushrooms sprouting from one of the dead alders in our creek, so I headed down and harvested them. Pasta tonight!

"This metaphor offers a chillingly accurate diagnosis of the dominant system that came to engulf the world. At its heart lies a mode of seeing that objectifies humans and nonhumans alike." jeremylent.substack.com/p/our-civili...

Most of America for quite some time may have noticed a faint sucking sound everywhere but especially in small towns and rural areas.

Ran to the end of our trail, about 1.2 miles at about a 10 minute per mile pace, then back again.

We ended up at Trick Dog where I encountered a delicious and intimidating head of cauliflower.

“I wouldn’t be a chef without my community. My community has played a huge role in what I do and what I advocate for.” Read our conversation with Kickapoo chef Crystal Wahpepah, where she discusses her first cookbook, “A Feather and a Fork.". ⬇️

Okay, let's hit pause now on berry and vegetable starts. I've made a lot of work for myself. If you're planning to visit Camp Earnest and want to chip in with some garden help and planting berries, flowers and fruit trees around campus, let me know.

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion. That's roughly $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. People do not want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

When when my daughter was born and I first became a father, my friends gave me the nickname "Papa Smurf." Well our bathhouse at Camp Earnest is going full Smurf, deep blue.

The old laptop and the new one. The old carried about 20 years of sticker memories. I’ve been saving new stickers for a few years now for this new one. Present self and memory self. How do you relate to the selves you’ve been?

There can be no wisdom without restraint. When will we decide that we have enough and settle into deep satisfaction and sympathetic joy. Thank you Gaya Herrington. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

From STANDING AT THE EDGE: Power, for example, can blunt our capacity for empathy, as if our brain had sustained serious damage. An article in the July/August, 2017 issue of The Atlantic summarized it this way: “The historian Henry Adams was being metaphorical, not medical, when he described

We refer to each other essentially as an "appetite with a wallet." Nate Hagens is attempting to wake us from the dream of infinitely accelerating consumption, which is also inevitable collapse. Will wisdom calibrate us towards restraint and care in time? www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOmG...

Sometimes we need to step back and just make sure we're still awake to the world as it is. Not fear, not fantasy, just meeting life in the moment.

Good People, Chef Eric Minnich has sent us his menu for our 194th GP Dinner, in San Francisco on February 24th. A few spots are still available using the link in the comments. OUR MENU: TO START Chinese Eggplant and Sichuan Peppercorn Caponata in Purple Endive

This wonderful book has a LOT of words. I couldn't imagine my son sitting still all the way through, almost 20 minutes. But I got to sit in the massage chair while he sat in my lap and I read him the whole book. Even better? We listened to Duke on the massage chair speakers while we read.

But the rules of our economies guarantee intense wealth concentration. They operationalize "greed is good" and then attempt to claw back cash after the fact. Imagine instead that the operation of the economy itself drove wealth to the middle and prioritized healthy ecologies over profit motive.

There's still great courage and valor in our country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP...

The perfect day for a patriotic protest against tyranny in the center of Sonora, and a big exciting win for the San Francisco 49ers!

Good People, Our second community dinner of 2026 is now live. Please join us on February 24th in SF for an evening with Context and a conversation about how we might operate as an integral part of the more than human world. www.eventbrite.com/e/1980029105...

Inspiring stuff. americaisrevolting.us/pages/about

"We all have our own stories of attentional woe. Suffice it to say that, like many people, I’ve been on what seems a years-long quest to establish a greater degree of mental sovereignty." www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Devastating. The accelerating erosion of genuine knowledge and critical reflection. We live in a crisis of the epistemic commons. Fewer and fewer people are able to grasp what is true or real.

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

Alison Bing has more talents than I can count. One of these is bartending. This cocktail contribution is "The Journalist," but here amended to "The Journalist on Assignment in Tuolumne County." www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/re...

Reduced myself to 204 lbs. and feeling decidedly...lighter.

Hard to embrace the label, but I think I'm a revolutionary. And this is the revolution our moment requires. Thank you for this gift to the world John Fullerton and to the luminaries who are part of our larger coherence around a civilization that regenerates and restores the web of life.

Our creek shared her roaring face today. I can't believe we get to live here!

Early this morning we said goodbye to my sister and our mama-san. Goodbye Tigertail Lodge! Goodbye Coconut Grove!

"Holding rights and responsibilities in dynamic equilibrium." www.facesofx.org/p/faces-of-f...

Peace, love and joy from our family here at the Tigertail Lodge in Coconut Grove.

Slow down time in Coconut Grove and at the Tigertail Lodge. Books and Books, Chuggs, Peacock and Kennedy Parks. Happy holidays everyone.

Life can only last awhile. youtu.be/cPZYGHsKvsU?...

Reconnecting with my daughter and scenes while wandering Hoxton and Shoreditch.

I don't think war has ever been serenaded this well. Cyrano de Bergerac eat your heart out. youtu.be/mn5AU-k8cfE?...

Big resourced friends who love hot water, Please consider this wonderful large property and its truly alchemical hot springs. Please consider how once you are the stewards, you might keep it as open and accessible as possible. sierrahotsprings.info?fbclid=IwY2x...

This evening's sunset at the pier in Point Arena.

"States don’t have to grant corporations the power to spend in politics. In fact, they could decide not to give corporations that power." robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

A fascinating evening at The Lightning Society in Brooklyn, put together by our friends Benjamin Von Wong and featuring Michael Mezzatesta and myself, all about the present and future of leaning into regenerative economics. Our movement is in the air! It was a packed house!

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our son is developing quite the vocabulary and so I'm offering small nuggets of dad advice I hope will serve him well. Become competent, not expert, at everything you touch.

Last night's sunset release of baby turtles on Playa La Ropa. The boy was immobilized and frankly concerned. We had to explain that they live in the ocean and are happy there.

More from Zihua.

Perhaps the problem is the incentives of a representative republic dominated by a narrow Overton Window of only two corporatist parties? I don't know. What do you think?

The path to Zihuatenejo. And I feel this Mexican graffiti artist. We haven't been the best of neighbors.