Monthly Archives: August 2011

Feast or Famine

Even though we garden, our existence often relies on hunter/gatherer mentality. Particularly, anthropologists tell us that hunter/gatherer societies operated on feast or famine. Relying on found foods, they sometimes went without. Other times they had more food than they would … Continue reading

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Sharks

If you’re reading Mary Oliver’s Twelve Moons as a lunar calendar with me this year, it’s August’s last quarter moon, time to read Sharks. As I suggested before, we “circled back” to pick this one up, having skipped over it … Continue reading

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