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Nov 5, 2024


Happy USA Election Day 2024, denizens of the world.

May it be, in fact, happy and harmless.

I have an election-day message for you.

We Too Must Grow.

It's a combination of my thoughts on the opportunities the election presents us with "It's Worse Than You Think" and my explication of a song that I think is INCREDIBLY...


Oct 21, 2024

This episode is based on a speech/sermon I wrote in October 2024 and delivered at a March for Democracy in a small town.

I used the opportunity to share what conflict mediation has taught me about winning.

Part I: Definitions of winning and losing
Part II: What's really standing in our way
Part III: The pearl of wisdom...


Oct 16, 2024

This episode is about Muslim-Jewish relations. It's about whats been going on in Israel and Palestine for the last year. It's about what's possible in the next year. It's about what happens when we expand the circle of concern.

And it's about what is happening, all over the world, in small communities, unreported by...


May 22, 2024

Two years ago I overheard a conversation at a local farmers' market about Clam Gardens. 

Being a nosy podcast host, I eavesdropped, eventually inserted myself, and got some contact information.

Today I caught up with Ala̱g̱a̱mił Nicole Norris, of Halalt First Nation on what's now known as Vancouver Island in...


Apr 14, 2024

In this episode I present what I learned from William Ury's The Third Side.

The basic idea is that our communities and societies are the most important element in developing an effective conflict management system, and that the essence of being effect is to exert peer pressure on resolving the conflict instead of taking...