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On the weekend before PNW Climate Week I attended a Beginner's Mind retreat at Great Vow Zen Monastery. The combination of mindfulness while working in the kitchen and garden was exactly what I have been looking for, but the hours in the car and on the cu

Michael Pollan has written about everything from mushrooms to apples and corn, but his coevolutionary story of how tulips and humans shaped each other may have been the most prescient given recent market parallels. GPU compute powering crypto for the last

I came to PNW Climate Week curious how I could better serve the planet. That might mean using my software skills to power an organization focused on environmental impact, conservation, or clean energy. It could also look completely different, part of a mo

After 5 years of building software to help social workers support children at Koinonia Family Services , I am ready for a new adventure! It's been wonderful growing together with the team there through leadership changes, shifts in the field, and evolving

Our big brains and hands are meant to serve mother earth, not dominate it. While most people were baking sourdough and watching Netflix during the covid lockdowns, I was streaming permaculture videos. I became obsessed with Kirsten Dirksen's work document

This year was my first time attending the North Coast Men's Gathering at the Mattole Camp and Retreat Center in the beautiful lost coast town of Petrolia. Huge thanks to the organizers and participants over the last 33+ years who have contributed to such

"Eventually after applying for Session 5 of Djangonaut Space, I was selected for Team Mars ! I was so inspired that I continued working on the Django issue I had dropped and finally that was merged just yesterday after over a year of work on and off ." I

I just got back from a Transformational Breath Essentials 6-Day Seminar at The Clearing Center in North Fork, CA. The land and people there are amazing! I would highly recommend anyone who is interested to go and check it out. I'm super grateful for peopl

When I started this blog in 2013 I used WordPress to avoid reinventing the wheel before moving over to Jekyll in 2016. I never took the time to set up continuous deployment so would SSH into DreamHost (strong CamelCase theme emerging here) then pull the g