Philosophy
Some foundations of Western cultural unseasonality: An introduction to seasonal living
January 30, 2025
The philosophical introduction to a seasonal living essay. (Let's talk about it at the seasonal living salon.)
The beating of my wild heart (aka: my feminism)
May 3, 2024
My feminism is a desire to listen and live according to my wild human heart, mind, and body. What this actually looks like is ill-defined; it’s certainly not a program, plan, or anything I would prescribe for someone else. There is no pledge of allegiance in this “ism,” no flag or banner under which I march.
Finding a work “thing” in the cultural, relational, and economic context of my life
March 6, 2024
My marriage, and family life in general, is an economic (as well as political and social) relationship. When Damien and I married we combined our non-material and material assets, resources, talents, and capacities for the flourishing of the whole, which in our case, is the family.
My Philosophy of Education
January 24, 2024
I’ve been thinking about this 25 years. Living it for nearly 24 years. Writing through its evolution for 20 years. And finally, in just the last four months I have been crafting it as a publishable document by applying philosophical concepts and frameworks to an analysis and reflection on this quarter century of thought and practice.
It takes one to know one: Dogma, heresy & fear
July 17, 2023
Going through the pandemic and living in this cultural moment where it feels like down is up and up is down has taught me many things. But one clear lesson has been our human fallibility to closed-minded thinking, group think, mob mentality, and tyranny.
Situating myself on the political spectrum and the authoritarianism of the left
November 10, 2022
I identify politically with the left of the spectrum because I am fundamentally opposed to authoritarianism and its manifestations and subsidiaries most often associated with and championed by the right. And it became undeniably clear that the right did not hold the patent on authoritarianism.
Explicating core political & spiritual values
September 22, 2022
Doing the work of defining and explaining my values, at this particular edge of my life. Values that grew in the living of them. Values that guided my homeschooling, undergird my mothering, my relationships, and my politics.
