Category Archives: delusions of progress

Our Culture of Sociopathy: History Will Not Be Kind to Us

Posted on May 27, 2025 by randomyriad
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Collateral Damage in the Uncivil War #1

Posted on February 23, 2025 by randomyriad

A Firefighter’s Warning The short sighted decision to unfairly fire the best employees in the federal land management agencies will have major negative ramifications this upcoming fire season. I have worked for a federal land management agency for 25 years. … Continue reading →

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Of the Fall and Falling and the Fallen

Posted on November 20, 2024 by randomyriad

If we can travel with our eyes wide open in the searing wind and churning flood of human activity, we can at times glimpse hopeful and useful signs as they bubble up from the chaos, but only if we can … Continue reading →

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Leaning into Our Shadows Under the Cold Bright Sun

Posted on May 16, 2024 by randomyriad

Beginning The moon drops one or two feathers into the field.   The dark wheat listens.Be still.Now.There they are, the moon’s young, tryingTheir wings.Between trees, a slender woman lifts up the lovely shadowOf her face, and now she steps into the air, … Continue reading →

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Important Ideas to Ponder Part I

Posted on December 9, 2023 by randomyriad

TO BE A PERSONby Jane Hirshfield To be a person is an untenable proposition. Odd of proportion,upright,unbalanced of body, feeling, and mind. Two predator’s eyesface forward,yet seem always to be trying to look back. Unhooved, untaloned fingersseem to grasp mostly … Continue reading →

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