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For anyone interested in meeting in the real world, I invite you to a campout June 12th through the 15th at Branched Oak Lake near Lincoln, Nebraska. For more info post a question or send me a PM or email at Ishmaellincoln@hotmail.com. This can be as eventful as you'd like. Your participation would be appreciated.

For those of you (us) who are into primitive skills and perhaps want to learn some fun tricks for how to live I found the following link you might find interesting:

 http://www.primitiveways.com/

    "Too big to fail." It's been the mantra of our economic meltdown. Although meant to emphasize the overwhelming importance of this bank or that corporation, the phrase also unwittingly expresses a shared delusion that may be at the root of our current crises -- both economic and ecological.

In nature, nothing is too big to fail. In fact, big is bound to fail. To understand why that's so means stepping away from a prevailing set of beliefs that holds us in its sway, especially the deep conviction that we operate apart from nature's limits and rules.

Escape from the Zombie Food Court

By Joe Bageant

I just returned from several months in Central America. And the day I returned I had iguana eggs for breakfast, airline pretzels for lunch and a $7 shot of Jack Daniels for dinner at the Houston Airport, where I spent two hours listening to a Christian religious fanatic tell about Obama running a worldwide child porn ring out of the White House. Entering the country shoeless through airport homeland security, holding up my pants because they don't let old men wear suspenders through security, well, I knew I was back home in the land of the free. 

More on Facing into the Anger

From comments and emails I’ve received, I am not alone as I witness an increase in anger in friends, family, and associates, especially when we try to talk about the seriousness of the climatic, economic, energy, and environmental predicament we’re collectively facing.  Some report it as markedly different in the wake of the last six months of calamitous economic unwinding. The inevitability of change is hitting home and people are not happy about it.

Okay, so this has worked so well for me I thought I’d make a post and see if it would help anyone else out.

My problem: I love ISHTHINK, and I want to stay connected with it – but the posts are pretty infrequent, and I often don’t make it to the page on my own often enough and then I miss thing, what can a guy do?

 The City that Ended Hunger
by Frances Moore Lappé

A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger.