Just got back from the Sierra Storytelling Festival in North Columbia, California. It was a nice way to spend most of a smoky summer weekend, at a wooden Greek amphitheatre deep in an old-growth cedar grove next to an 1875 schoolhouse on the edge of the South Yuba River canyon. The featured storytellers represented more cultures than human [...]

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(Using green power to plant a truck garden in Orio, a few miles west of San Sebastián along the coastal road) 
In a few hours I’ll be meeting with my colleague Peg’s daughter Meg (that’s right — Peg and Meg). Meg, her husband Paul and their young son Ethan are spending a week in San Sebastián later this [...]

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As the smoke from hundreds of California wildfires mutes our Sierra sunshine into a melancholy and slightly apocalyptic light, I think more and more of the Basque Country and its cool, windy, wet weather. Amy captured it perfectly one mid-May day, looking westward along the Gipuzcoan coastline from my favorite perch above the town of Zumaia.

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