It's the first week of our 2013 Peak Moment Road Trip. We reached escape velocity following a major marathon at Lone Bobcat Woods. In Chico we videoed a Tiny House with Logan Smith. Near Eugene Oregon we popped in on Suburban Backyard Permaculturist Jan Spencer, and … [Read more...]
A Forest View – and Smoky Wildfires
August 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
July 30,2013. As I painted this view from Dunsmuir in northern California, layers of smoky haze filled the air. Smoke from multiple wildfires in southern Oregon reduced visibility like thick fog. I found it difficult to get a good deep breath as we traveled north. The … [Read more...]
Simple Living Enables Dreams – A Tiny House Tour
August 5, 2013 by 1 Comment
July 29, 2013: Chico, California. After visiting with our friend Mary Nelson, we biked to the Tiny House where Logan Smith and Tammy Strobel are now living. Their dedication to simple living has enabled them to achieve several dreams since we taped Young Couple Find Freedom … [Read more...]
Escape Velocity Reached! Peak Moment On the Road 2013
August 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We reached escape velocity Sunday evening July 28th. It was a major marathon wrapping everything up at Lone Bobcat Woods for three tenants on our non-automated homestead, especially with the possibility we may be gone through the winter. While I provisioned our "Little … [Read more...]
“We LIVE Here?” – my painting in an international show
July 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
July 22, 2013. Carolyn Baker published my art in her Daily Digest along with the following poem by Don Hynes of Portland, Oregon. A rather beautiful and synchronistic matching: little did she know that Don and I are acquainted through the internet, soon to meet in … [Read more...]
An Artist’s View from Coyote Overlook
May 14, 2013 by 1 Comment
This is where we live. What inspires us. Just a short walk around Round Mountain, Coyote Overlook boasts a vista extending across the Rock Creek watershed to the South Yuba River canyon. Beyond is the Sacramento Valley and on clear days, we can see the coastal range. … [Read more...]
Living with the Predicament – Ivey and Me
May 8, 2013 by 2 Comments
You asked for it! After we had our Connect the Dots: Systems in Collapse video panel discussion, some Peak Moment TV viewers asked to hear more of my perspectives. Host and producer Ivey Cone said sure, so she and I did Take Two. Ivey and I got on a roll in Living with … [Read more...]
Gnarly Ancestral Oak Going Strong after Three Centuries
April 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Like a guardian spirit (do you see her watchful eye?), this Ancestral Black Oak welcomes us as we enter Bearhaven Meadow at Lone Bobcat Woods near Round Mountain in the South Yuba River watershed. She is nearly hollow, perhaps from a long-ago wildfire. If you look up from … [Read more...]
Connect the Dots: Systems in Collapse (Video)
April 24, 2013 by 4 Comments
Our close friend Ivey Cone hosted and produced Connect the Dots: Systems in Collapse, a panel discussion with Nevada City, CA activists Terra Nyssa, Tom Grundy and myself in late March, 2013. It's a courageous discussion about some of the issues we face at this time of … [Read more...]
Cooking Primal Cuisine with Chef Pauli Halstead
April 20, 2013 by 1 Comment
April 16, 2013. Today we enjoyed taping and tasting a Peak Moment show with Pauli Halstead, author of Primal Cuisine: Cooking for the Paleo Diet. We met Pauli last fall 2012 at my talk on our ketogenic diet, Celebrating a Lighter, Leaner Janaia. Later she invited us to … [Read more...]
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