Thought Distillery

It sounds unpleasantly strange doesn’t it? Well, the first time I heard of eating stinging nettles raw was from David Wolfe during one of his inspiring raw food lectures. I searched all over for others’ experience and found nothing. So with an open mind and a high tolerance for potential gastronomical pain, I set out [...]

The jump rope - a simple yet dastardly instrument of exercise and destruction. For the first time since I was in middle school (whew - that link really took me back!), I innocently decided to jump rope this morning. For several years that wicked length of ankle-mangling plastic has somehow followed me from residence to [...]

Continuing on my recent interest in worldly music, I ventured across the Pacific on Sunday to land my ears upon the island of Japan. Playing at the Indiana University Mathers Museum was Master Baisho Matsumoto and Molly Adkins Jeon, a Japanese folksinger and ethnomusicologist. Master Matsumoto enthralled the small audience with his jovial personality and [...]

Thanks to the cooperative efforts of Bloomingfoods, The Center For Sustainable Living, Harmony School, and Habitat for Humanity I have at last been set out on bale. Straw bale that is. Tonight I attended a meeting of the aforementioned groups to get the low down on the hoe down. Construction that is. Beginning in June [...]

Well yesterday was quite a treat indeed! My family wasn’t trying to pull a fast one on me when they convinced me to meet them in Kokomo Indiana for the annual festival of the Indiana Gourd Society. Yes - gourds - those seemingly humble pseudo vegetables we tend to see around the fall of the [...]