So, David Hicks is back in Australia (I won’t use ‘home’ because the connotations of safety and comfort do not apply to his continued solitary confinement in a prison cell somewhere in Adelaide). I find the word “freedom” used to describe...

Argh! The US on climate change

I have huge problems with the idea of the G8. I don’t think there should be a ruling class like this making decisions for the rest of us. But when those decisions are good things, like reining in the runaway idiocy of their corporations and trying to save some...
FireDrums 2007

FireDrums 2007

Over the weekend, we went to Big Basin State Forest for FireDrums V. It was a magical weekend, mystical and wild, even if it was emotionally draining at times. I lit my poi for the first time ever and Doug and I did a quiet little Beltaine ritual in front of the big...