Beneath anger, there’s grief. Within grief, there’s gratitude. Anger channels the fire stoked by violated boundaries. It can clear the brush as wildfires do when there’s too much left dry and crowded in the plain or forest to make way for the new. Or it can scorch the earth barren when decades of fire suppression policy turn a regular event for maintenance into a congested pyre waiting to raze everything around it including the earth below.

“Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.” -Message to the Grassroots, Detroit 1963 ….. “We must, we must understand the politics of our…

Four people I tend to think about and why when it’s time to dig deep or regroup from sadness or overwhelm before moving forward again: 1. Mum — “you always have three choices you can make, even to the moment before death.”-citing …

Seeing complex problems and “wicked processes” with quantum computing basics. — Most of the big important problems we face and struggle with — the very big ones that move slowly enough to make day to day issues more apparent than a 5, 10, 15, or 100 year timeline— are not linear cause-effect or “one cause, one solution” issues. …

What might we gain from a foray across groove music, gardening, culinary arts, complex systems and emergent strategy? — First, I have a musical creative process story for you, which meanders into a tangent on strategy regarding complex systems, and then we’ll bring it back down to earth connecting music and gardening with environmental literacy. Plus: you’ll find a musical multimedia experience to supplement the reading!

In case this helps for leading conversations around gun violence (especially mass shootings), here’s a [working] framework for examining it on three levels. …

Among things I never imagined doing, making jewelry in college ranks high on the list for someone who majored in Environmental Science. I was privileged to learn fine soft glass craft work in 2012. …

Every opportunity has a ripening period—much like fruit. If you miss one, it’s okay—you’re still in season depending on the fecundity of the plant and the abundance of its population in a particular region. Sometimes we taste one too soon and it’s sour. Or too late and its sweet balance is lost to fermentation and rot. Then we pick and taste a new one—there! That’s much better. And don’t forget—you can also commit to the long-haul by cultivating the plant itself so that you’ll be ready for the next harvest with opportunities of your facilitation. Perhaps you’ll share your labors and fruits with others to sweat and celebrate by your side as well.

A literal interpretation and how to keep living among the living after you’re gone. — Sunrise 32,000 ft above sea level early January 2011. “The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality” — John F. Kennedy [*possibly attributed to Dante Alighieri’s Inferno] Considering the above quote, moments of great moral crises are opportunities for…