Ray, people will come Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won’t mind if you look around, you’ll say. It’s only $20 [...]
Gross National Happiness
I’ve often wondered why our economic models have be built upon a metric of “Gross National Product”, and later “Gross Domestic Product.” Unfortunately for the Earth and Natural Resource Sustainability, these metrics have overwhelmed the ability of U.S. communities to create sustainable socio-economic policies and practice. In this 17 minute TED presentation, Chip Conley suggests [...]
Simple Things
Simplicity is not simple… or is it?
Do schools kill creativity?
As music, dance, painting, crafting, cooking, and other creative endeavors fall to the bottom of priority lists in schools and many homes, this short video is a reminder of why… Check it out… I look forward to your thoughts. How schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com http://bit.ly/bYLSDF
Nurturing Creativity – “Doing Our Dance Anyhow”
What is the mystery of Creativity? Can we remain sane as “artists”? as teachers” as leaders in sharing our gift” Today I am inspired by a presence that I like to think appears in all of our lives. A presence so strong, a “voice” from the invisible, so strong, that we can not ignore it. [...]

Winnemem Wintu Leaders in New Zealand to Woo the Salmon Home
by Dan Bacher On March 21, Jesse McKinley published an outstanding article in the New York Times about the Winnemem Wintu Tribe’s journey to New Zealand to bring winter chinook salmon introduced into the Rakaia River back to their native stream, the McCloud River. Over 2 dozen tribal members boarded a plane Friday night on their spiritual journey to New Zealand. “Once in New Zealand, the [...]

Resolution: Calling Back Salmon
Help introduce the SALMON RESOLUTION to Local, State and Federal leaders and decision makers. Your Support will help in efforts by the Calling Back the Salmon committee to bring about sustainable public policy directives. Help give Salmon and our Waterways the rights to live and flow freely in our communities once again. Simply [...]






