This exhibition series features poetic verse and philosophical concepts collected over the course of five years of field research and study on natural farming, conducted in Japan, Korea, Scotland, and the United States. Although regarded positively by environmental experts, the practice of natural farming is … Continue readingWisdom From the Field
As a testament to an unconventional year, we spent Christmas on an overnight train from Chaingmai to Bangkok this year. Although we took the trip with our good friends Tomo and Pattarapol, and there were a few bright red Santa hats walking around the train, … Continue readingEnd of Winter Update (2017)
In this very moment, you and I have a choice, and that choice will effect whether or not our children and grand children can live happily on this earth. We should take that choice seriously. … Continue readingFinal Straw | Life and Death in the Field
…the issue is not that we are “not extraordinary enough” but rather that, although each of us has an extraordinary seed inside of us, the habits of our contemporary urban lives — from the food we eat to the jobs we work to the television we watch — do not nourish this seed. … Continue readingFinal Straw | The Seeds Inside of Us
Launched in 2011 by Patrick M. Lydon and Suhee Kanag, SocieCity is an international collective of artists, writers, and other professionals who are working to build long-term social and ecological well-being by inspiring empathic relationships between people and the environment.
This past weekend Suhee and I were in Kyoto. We got off the train early, and took a long few hours walk to our destination, giving ourselves time to slow things down. Just walking. Looking. Feeling. Experiencing this city. Slow pace. The destination was a … Continue readingTrue and Slow Experiences – Kyoto
In this and every moment
through history and into the future
we are space and time
a constant flux and movement
a chaotic and joyous concert … Continue readingSpace and Time
— Lives full of important decisions which carry no importance outside of the rules and regulations we’ve conventiently made up We write in pen, pencil, stone yet it would be better written in air There is no word to express what life is There is … Continue readingOne: Wealth in Simplicity
A boy and his dog
A shepheard and his sheep
Lone on a crispy dry hill, a cow cools off
even the famous ‘Real California Cheese’
can thank me for something … Continue readingI am Born (California Oak)
I lie on the floor
A simple blanket covers me
A small pillow filled with beans
occupies the space between the floor and the back of my head
and on a whisper through the window
the scent of the forest … Continue readingA Simple Blanket Covers Me
A large swath of family portraits adorn his living room wall; six daughters and one son, he tells us, “we didn’t stop making kids until we had a son.” There’s your Korean dedication again… … Continue readingIn Dae-Dong, Life is a Wave
A microbial lifeform in the soil is
nearly invisible to us
So are we each, in the scope of the planet
nearly invisible… … Continue readingImage and Word: The Greatest Miracles
For the sake of that little bit of sanity, let’s assume it’s not too late to turn back the tables on environmental disaster. That it’s not too late for us to re-capture truth in the way we live life and the way we interact with others … Continue readingDear Industry: It’s Not You, It’s Me
It’s too easy today… to get stuck in a way of thinking which presents life to you as one struggle after another, an overly complex maze of people, places, and things, all which must be conquered in order to get to the ultimate resting place… which … Continue readingSimplicity in Yamaguchi
The act of simply living life as we were meant to is really quite easy… … Continue readingThe Difficult Part of Simple Life
Only kids notice the things that go on above their heads. … Continue readingOnly Kids Notice