I gave a keynote and led a leadership workshop near Harrisburg, PA—a place halfway between where I grew up in Philadelphia and where my dad grew up, in Pittsburgh, so we passed through there many times growing up. I learned that the city hosts a Civil War Museum, so arranged to spend half a day there. I recommend it. A few items affected me beyond what I would have expected.[…] Keep reading →

I’m not trying to make lots of headlines about this pattern, but I don’t want to revise past posts. I’m not looking for these killed trees. On the contrary, that I can’t avoid them suggests how many we kill, ostensibly to celebrate life and the birth of someone who promoted loving your neighbor as yourself. Hours after posting The last Christmas Pagan Trees of the Season?, which wasn’t my last[…] Keep reading →

I’ve already written a few posts this year wondering if I’ve seen the last discarded trees, but we cut down so many, it takes this long to discard them all. We could have left them standing. It’s almost April and people pay to chop down so many trees, I’ve seen them thrown out this month. I think I’ve seen the last for the season so I’ll post the last images[…] Keep reading →

I posted last month about a Spodek Method commitment to walk in a park with my sister in Queens based on walking in the park with my dad. Yesterday, I walked in the same park I did with my dad, this time with my other sister, plus her husband and son, my brother-in-law and nephew. To refresh your memory, that post, Another Spodek Method commitment: a walk in the park[…] Keep reading →

I just posted The first warm day of the year means overflowing doof garbage, of course, which showed how Americans celebrate spring: polluting and depleting, funding the production of garbage, and driving themselves to obesity. We also celebrate winter by killing trees. I hope the picture below is the last Christmas Pagan tree of the season. It goes to show you how many trees we kill in our pagan rituals[…] Keep reading →

Sunday was the first warm day of the year. It was shorts weather. Do we celebrate the abundance of nature? No, that’s not today’s American values. What are today’s American values? You can tell by our behavior. We buy doof, not food. We don’t prepare it. We buy it pre-prepared, which means overloaded with salt, sugar, and fat, then packaged. We don’t even eat fresh fruit on its own. We[…] Keep reading →

It’s March and people pay to chop down so many trees, I’ve seen them thrown out this month. I think I’ve seen the last for the season so I’ll post the last images of them. I’ll copy text from previous posts so people see I’m defending, not attacking, tradition. It’s sad how garbage-y they look. This long after Christmas, I think people have lost interest in connecting the trees with[…] Keep reading →

Everyone has a camera, so anyone can find wonderful pictures of anything online, but I couldn’t help take some pictures of today’s blizzard. It started yesterday and is forecast to run until this evening. Many places see more snow all the time, so I’m not saying we’re experiencing a lot of snow. It also isn’t that cold, slightly below freezing. I tried to take pictures that show the city before[…] Keep reading →

People dream that we’ll figure out how to keep our world as it is, just without pollution and depletion. We’ll just create new technology that does what existing technology does, but it will be “clean,” “green,” and “renewable.” Well, shoot, why didn’t people think of making technology that didn’t hurt people in the first place? What jerks, not making things “clean,” “green,” and “renewable.” Oh wait, maybe it’s not possible[…] Keep reading →