Life is good
I’m a stay at home writer now after many years of traveling and publishing, writing and doing art. I have lived in the Northwest where I was born, in the Southwest in Arizona, New Mexico and the hill country of Texas, in Florida on the Gulf Coast for awhile and spent some time in California on the Central Coast and in upstate New York. I spent five years living and traveling on a converted school bus from ‘96 to ‘01. I’m writing a book about that trip and another one about growing up and growing old as a nature mystic in this changing world.
This is what I have to pass on. How we got from there to here - or one small piece of that story. I was lucky enough to know two of my great grandmothers and all of my grandparents when I was growing up. I heard stories from the late 1800s and early 1900s. In my own lifetime, I remember a world where we ate from the garden, drank from the river and could lay on the grass on a summer night and see all the stars (and only stars).
Why is this important? Because life is all of a piece. We existed before cars and planes and TV; we can exist beyond the way it is now. We can change. Growth is not necessarily acquiring new stuff or even new technology.
We all need food, water, shelter, and joy. Whatever threatens these is the manifestation of a death wish. That is why I tell my stories. Life is good. Everywhere I have traveled, I have found people who manifested the goodness of life and shared it with joy.
No one is going to save us but us. May we all find our place in the web of life and live in harmony with each other and the natural world.