A few years ago, a local nightly news channel was reporting on an innovative program for people who’d been laid off from their jobs in the regional aircraft industry. As a one-stop service center, it was designed to connect people with services that could help fill gaps in income while looking for new employment. It [...]

The old woman took the tablet of instructions wrapped in a worn cloth and broke them in two pieces. The tablet was given to her by Creator and would serve as the guide for developments in this new world which was just opening. She gave half to her younger son. He was instructed to go [...]

The struggle of land based people, such as the Lakota, is a sad one especially for those of us who care about the Earth and her children. Yet, the very struggle between the profit motive and respect for the quality of life, has cast us all together in bringing about our collective future that we might, [...]

My grandfather’s grandfather mustered out of the army after the civil war in 1865 in Virginia. Like many others of his time, he was lost. The scale of loss and change in the country was enormous. (2.1 million men, 10%, served in the Union Army  and 1 million in the Confederate Army during the four [...]