I have had a couple different ideas of the meaning of resilience. Somehow, the casual use of the term in Transition lore failed to satisfy my curiousity about practical meanings and connections with our activities. 

In this newsletter from the Port Carbon Institute I found some specifics. And, it's no surprise that they speak of the same tactics that I've been…

I enjoyed all the great information and nice selection of seeds at the Seed Exchange event today.  Thanks for putting on such a great and well attended event.

Being without electricity (and computer and Internet) occasioned some thinking about what's necessary, what might be slipping away and where daily living might evolve in a post-industrial society.

I regularly read apocalyptic predictions, and the seem shrill and overly reactive. And even some of the "gradual decline" scenarios seem almost as dire compared to the comfort, ease, wealth and luxury of today. In both prognostications, there's buzz about immense suffering and privation…

These lyrics are from John Prine in "Spanish Pipedream" from Great Days: The John Prine Anthology, pre-1993. The words seem as proper (maybe moreso) today.

"Blow up your T.V. throw away your paper

Go to the country, build you a home

Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches

Try an find Jesus on your own"

We're taking little steps forward/backward.

I've learned a lot from the following resources. Some are more than 30 years "old" but timely.

Books

• Jayber Crow, by Wendell Berry - about agribusiness, place, and community
• Bringing it to the Table: on Farming and Food, Wendell Berry - timely essays about food
• Depletion and Abundance, Sharon Astyk - small steps toward sustainable communities
• A world made by Hand, James Howard Kunstler - a…

This holiday season I am excited to make it easy for people to eat local, healthy food while keeping their food-dollars in the community.  Eat Local Network has put together ingredients and recipes for classic Thanksgiving side dishes.  

All vegetables come from farms in the Snoqualmie Valley. Other ingredients (including butter, cranberries, nuts and dried cherries) are grown within 100 miles of the valley.

Locally…