Fight the violence with non-violence... What a powerful statement, but what if peaceful non-violent protests fail... what do we do then? What happens when range resources comes and builds a drilling platform in your backyard? Would you peacefully protest or would you want to grab that pig and get dirty? If your family had been living on the same farm for a hundred years and a gas well or strip mine rendered the groundwater useless...  What would you do?

I'm not suggesting violence is…

When I wake up in the morning I have a routine that starts by making a cup of coffee and breakfast, then I follow it up by doing laundry or maybe running the dishwasher. Somedays I even get into a car and drive to McDonalds to get my girlfriend and I breakfast. When the grass needs cut I fire up my super sweet lawnboy and mow the lawn, even this blog was written on one of these so called modern conveniences that we all treasure. What do all of these "so called" modern conveniences have in…

     Sometimes the fog around my head gets so thick I can't even see my own hands in front of my face. I get into these endless clouds of depression that if they lived in the sky they would surely produce rain. My body aches, my head hurts, I have absolutely no motivation to do anything and any positive thoughts are often abandoned for fear and nightmares. Often the answer is as simple as getting up and going out to work in my garden but often times I can't even work up the energy nesessary…

     Utility poles create garden opportunities in space that would otherwise just be filled with grass and weeds. My street has a "Hell-Strip" also known as the little strip of grass between…