“I live in a ball. Yes, the ball hangs in a tree.”
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I quit washing my hair two years ago. It worked out quite well, at least as long as I rinsed my hair in really lovely McKenzie River water. Unwashing became much more problematic after I moved to Waukesha, Wisconsin. Waukesha’s deep draw aquifer water is incredibly toxic, and filled with tons of minerals. My hair acquired the texture of glitter glue. I resisted for about four months after moving, but eventually I started washing my hair with shampoo again, just so I could get the scale off.
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I’ve been thinking about story again lately…story as future, story as creation, story as self. Often, I’m not even aware that I’ve been thinking about something until I find the keystone, gain insight, and then I can see how that insight has actually been growing in me for some time.

I recently re-read Storying Corporate Futures: The Shell Scenarios
which sounds dull and dry, but is anything but. This fascinating interview with Betty Sue Flowers is definitely about the Shell Scenarios, but mostly it’s about myth and the power of creating visions of the future which create our visions of the present.
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So, Jason tells me this site keeps him sane and I said I need to write more because that keeps me sane.

It’s a strange journey, this past year, long in the telling and I haven’t so much time for long stories these days. This site has been through a variety of incarnations over the past 11 years. Almost exactly a year ago, I decided to really prioritize my sustainable living, change minds and save the world efforts. The result was unexpected.

I’m going to tell this story in fifty steps, because that’s what we set out to do…fifty harder things. Along the way, I’m going to reinvent the whole thing and start again, ’cause that’s what I do…use my words to firm my feet, my bones, my muscles and my resolve, to lift my head, lift my hope and keep walking forward into a future I refuse to believe is anything but glorious.