I'm finally back Steemit! I've been super busy on the homestead and I'm excited to show you all some of what I've been up to. Expanding into the Forest I've been working hard at clearing a 40 x 60 garden

Roots weaving through the earth medium Giving shelter and sustenance to rhyzomian life Who gratefully mine precious minerals From pressed down, compacted, solidified earth And return the favor Bare branches

We have so much power to manipulate our environment and setting that we often forgo nature’s blessings of peace, healing, and affirmation unintentionally. As I sat here by my table, lights off in my house,

Wow, time flew by way too fast. What started as a few weeks off, rolled into a month. Our plans to travel were canceled, the weather turned bitter cold again and we were buried once more with over a foot

Today it is cold and snowing. It snowed a foot today and it is a perfect day to take pictures. So I went outside to take pictures. But I had to walk in the deep snow. My camera got wet from all the snow

Hey folks! It's been much longer than I would have liked to go without posting. But I've been quite busy outside working on some pretty intensive expansions to the homestead grounds. The weather has been

The season is upon us! I received my seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds just in time to start my onions. I'll be starting 200 of them tomorrow in large soil blocks. Last year I tried to get away with

On October 30th 2017 my father passed away suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 66 from a heart attack. I never imagined I would be losing a parent at 33 or that my mother would be widowed at 57. As

As part of the Minnow Support Community Curation project, each week I will select 5 photography posts using the MSP-Curation Account! Each post will be upvoted by @msp-curation and one will be resteemed

Sometime ago, @sagescrub challenged us to define what freedom means to us. As I thought about this question I couldn't help gravitate to a broader picture of what a free society would look like. As I've

In the hit 1970s sitcom All in the Family, Rob Reiner played Michael Stivic, whose progressive countercultural 1960s sensibilities made him a perfect foil for his bigoted, conservative father-in-law Archie

This article was written exclusively for Steemit! I recently attended the 2018 Women’s March in Los Angeles with a crew of awesome journalists, including Derrick Broze & Ford Fischer, both fellow

So I’ve been working on a lot of article ideas I’d like to post on this platform and they’re all good ideas. I even came up with a series I want to write complete with chapter titles and all. But what

I am fairly confident that it would be entirely possible to organize a society on a completely stateless basis. There are two models of "anarchism" that seem likely to work. The first, broadly

Authors make money on steemit by creating content and having others upvote it, a like = $ in the Steem economy. Dead simple formula, no gimmicks, but a lot of conditionals. The worth of a user’s upvote

It’s no secret, Steem has a problem with the distributions. From the epic flag wars between @haejin and @berniesanders to self voting accounts who give themselves thousands for simple comments; with Steemit’s

“For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken away from him. But religion means dependence on and submission to the irrational

Hey folks, I just joined. Still figuring things out. Finally reached my breaking point with Facebook - Well, in fact, I've been exploring other platforms for awhile now. But I recently did a video on the

It gives no fucks whether you live or die, it will make use of you either way. It never bends to appease, or compromise, it knows its way is proven. It does not retaliate or hold grudges, if you destroy

Some time ago @aggroed presented a challenge to the Steem community to describe their ideal society. Since this is a subject I dwell on quite often, I immediately jumped on the opportunity. However, for