Maize, teosinte No European culture or existence is primally oriented toward corn – rather dairy, and wheat, emmer, barley And middle eastern, African, Asian, Oceania existences even less so From the primal story of natives teaching the British to drop a fish in the hole when planting corn, through hoe-cakes and moonshine, tortillas and corn … More Corn is what makes us Americans

Let’s make them stronger

The top of my spinal cord The bottom of my brain I am most present and happy not in the fertility rites but in the early summer rain and cold; not in the harvest but in the dying, colored autumn beyond I am most present and happy in genial collegiality, not in swagger and stamp … More The top of my spine never got fully formed*

Garam, Red Boat Fish Sauce, Worcestershire sauce, etc

An upwelling Within the exuberant surrounding female oceanic terrestrial whole And upon an even more encompassing and foundational bedrock, beneath gender, of human and animal creativity, conviviality, and cheer

The four books, as well as the teaching, and the academic networking and presentations

Introducing myself to you How I am an American Why I am an atheist What that really looks like in day-to-day living Credo My atheism’s capacities for Care, Gratitude, Energy, Creativity Why you, too, might be an atheist – and if not, why you should

Years ago, in the few years after we moved in, I had the thought of that area in the front of the attic, with the windows and the west-northwest-facing view and the deep and current landscape, as eventually a practical, purposive, functional office – a place to store books and papers and to do work, … More Creating the resonant library in the attic

That’s where my reality started, awoke – and where I now awake Though even as that wanting was emerging, my biological and interpersonal environments and my stuttering were malforming it, into what it is today, in me