The elders giggle

By Victor L. Midyett

I watched the American PBS news one afternoon a few weeks ago. They discussed several observations of people being fearful and not willing to connect or talk with their neighbors anymore, or urban dwellers v. rural dwellers. Closer to home, communities v. communities, organizations v. organizations, friends v. friends, family v. family, the employed v. the unemployed. Perhaps even churches v. churches.

Sketches from Salt Lake: Another order of things

Tillicum Village

By Geoffrey Dean

Two Saturdays ago, I joined my musical host in the State of Washington, the brilliant and thought-provoking keyboard artist Byron Schenkman, and his spouse Tom, on an Argosy Cruise to Seattle’s Blake Island – “to walk in Chief Seattle’s footsteps,” as the Argosy website puts it.

Sustainable Agriculture in Native America

By Christopher-Joseph Ravnopolski-Dean

I have a profound interest in agriculture, and more precisely sustainable agriculture, which uses an ecological approach towards nature – instead of fighting nature, it follows it.