And what work am I doing when I’m not even aware of it, when I think what I’m doing is dull drudgery, practical necessity – and it often is either or both of those, but also or at other times things come more alive What is this that is erupting out of me? What else … More What is the work that erupts spontaneously out of me?

First as a traveler, now as a husbandman Unfortunately, my self image and career path remained book-oriented, and I’ve never dealt with the misalignment

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