When the Earth Moves Again: Flatbush Flora

Top: The green fuse that drives the flower: A tiny flower that springs up in the crook of the base of our cherry tree each spring.

Bottom: The purple crocuses, basking in the early springtime sun.

The Silence Farther From Shore

Not just a blip or a glitch. Why is the current disruption so profound ? A seismic shift in not only our political economy, but seemingly also in the fundamental economic ecology of the industrialized, technologically-based tribes/peoples/societies aka nations on the planet. Something has been ripped away, we seem to be swimming, drawn by the current farther from shore. Hoping that it is simply a temporary disjuncture but concerned that it is something else, something harder to understand, harder to explain, something that will be with us for awhile...


Peace Like A River by Paul Simon

Ah, peace like a river ran through the city
Long past the midnight curfew
We sat starry-eyed
Ooh, oh,we were satisfied
O-o-oh, And I remember
Misinformation followed us like a plague
Nobody knew from time to time
If the plans were changed
Oh, oh, oh, if the plans were changed.

You can beat us with wires
You can beat us with chains
You can run out your rules
But you know you can't outrun the history train
I seen a glorious day, aiee------

Ah, four in the morning
I woke up from out of my dreams
Nowhere to go but back to sleep
But I'm reconciled
Oh, oh, oh, I'm going to be up for a while
Oh, oh, oh, I'm going to be up for a while

Oh, oh, oh, I'm going to be up for a while



Elvis Costello performing Peace Like A River at Montreal Jazz Festival:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D43-Elm8RgQ