I’m on my yucca-framed porch swing sipping an organic Orange Julius and watching an 8,500-acre wildfire creep towards me here on the Funky Butte Ranch. Shrug. Just more climate change era chaos. I can smell and in fact feel the heat from the blaze already. Its light ash snowfall accumulating on my napping dog… Continue Reading »
The Drug War’s Berlin Wall Is Down And So Is My Local Forest: Here’s The Connection
The View Eighteen Degrees to My Left
Even Though a Majority Favor the Drug Peace in My Own New Mexico (As We Do Nationwide), What I’m Noticing in Interviews Like This Terrifically Thorough Half-hour One With the Land of Enchantment PBS Affiliate’s “Newsmakers” Program, Is That The Most Most Mainstream of U.S. Media Platforms Take My “Ending the Drug War is Inevitable… Continue Reading »
Six Sense Serenade: The Promotion of Now
The view from the peak of the Funky Butte Ranch arroyo run about which I’m always blogging on and on, including today Why on Earth are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. –J. Lennon One of the lasting lessons I learned early on my first extended trip into true… Continue Reading »
Indigenous Plus Netflix: “It’s Cool Because It’s Old” Also Applies to Plants
Breaking News: My recent Conan O’Brien appearance is airing again on Monday (November 19) – Check it on TBS in your time zone. Helpful and supremely fun but non-mandatory pre-viewing reading: http://amzn.to/SJIs5i In This Latest Dispatch: Do Washington and Colorado Have You Singing “God Bless America”? You Haven’t Begun to Hear All The Good News:… Continue Reading »
America Adapts: The Drug Peace Transition Looks to Be a Smooth One
Well, We Can Add C-Span’s BookTV To the Vast and Growing List of Mainstream Media Venues Whose Deciders Seem Fine With An Hour-long, Nationally Broadcast Invocation For the Drug Peace Conan’s on Board (along with Pat Robertson and Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State George Shultz) Best of all, well, there’s nothing like… Continue Reading »
Today’s Busy Shaman’s One-Minute Recipe For Bliss: Allow For Smooth Goat Homespace Reentry Time
BBC TV Takes the TOO HIGH TO FAIL Drug Peace Message Across the Pond The TOO HIGH TO FAIL Pax Cannabis Tour Bus ReasonTV’s TOO HIGH TO FAIL Interview, as Shouted Out By the Angels at bOING bOING “Let it rain. Let it rain. Let your love rain down on me.” –Eric… Continue Reading »
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