PIPER SMALL IS A BLOGGER/WRITER BASED IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES.

SHE IS MOST INTERESTED IN TOPICS RELATED TO THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE IN MODERN LIFE, FAMILY, COMMUNITY, NATURE, SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, DEPRESSION AND PTSD.

SHE TRIES TO DO ALL THIS WITH AS MUCH HUMOR AS POSSIBLE. 

Fly By

I’m back down here in San Francisco visiting my wonderful aunt.

The biggest treat so far aside from seeing her was seeing the full moon set around 7 am over the Pacific Ocean horizon, still at high cloud level but beautiful. It left me speechless really. I took a thousand million photos.

What am I thinking about the most right now? After the last RobCast on soil, just that, good soil vs. dry dirt. I’m thinking about how the most important things to me continue to be my personal growth and unwinding, the apples and pears in my garage and the dried pods I found last night and put in the vase on the table.

I spent time tonight w/ Patricia’s flat mate who is from Nepal. More discussions w/ her further remind me of what I am pursuing in life and how different it is than my culture.

I’d like to find some kind of balance, but what if your situation is so incredibly off-balance that just moving to the middle isn’t far enough.

I had people over for dinner Monday night and sliced up one of the pears that was ripening. People gobbled it up. Just, like a frenzy going after the fruit.

The podcast talked about how our microbiome is a reflection of our soil which should be full of nutrients and trace minerals and vitamins, bacteria, etc. Our microbiome goes that way of the soil.

We’ve been killing our soil since 1975 when we started aggressively spraying chemicals on the soul. We’ve also been aggressively killing bacteria in our guys w/ antibiotics, without much hesitation.

These things consume my mind right now.

I think about my mom and how much I learned from her about good food. She was a real pioneer in health food and probably helped my dad alot with his health issues. She set us on a good course.

Our world is sort of falling apart right now. It’s very, very strange to have this front row seat and see all the markers. I am trying to live and love in the moment but also plan for the future, both for myself and our family but also our community, the future generations of people and the planet. It can be overwhelming.

I am trying to just use my tools and also, really focus on getting onto a schedule that works regardless of how I’m feeling.

It really runs in our family to be distracted, not on a good schedule, randomly do things regardless, just twitter things away. We have issues w/ this sort of thing. I’m consistently trying to tighten down my schedule and get better at it all.

Changed It

What a Pain