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Floodplains are carbon capture allies for us
I love learning about the importance of floodplains in carbon capture. I already knew they are an important part of biodiversity and...
Timothy S. Colman
Jul 25, 20241 min read


Dr. Bobby Price helped me switch to plant strong 16 hour fasts
Love Dr. Price. And Price is right here:
Timothy S. Colman
Jul 23, 20241 min read


Timothy S. Colman
Jul 23, 20240 min read


Listen to the cloud floating by...loving the Earth until she loves you back.
We're a beautiful heartbreaking species. Story in WAPO on uncontacted tribe Mashco Piro made me want to write a letter in comments. ...
Timothy S. Colman
Jul 19, 20242 min read


Hafiz translated by Robert Bly and Daniel Ladinsky
What we speak becomes the house we live in. Who will want to sleep in your bed if the roof leaks right above it? Fear is the cheapest...
Timothy S. Colman
Jul 12, 20241 min read
Legalize Nature
Love these efforts to give Mother Earth an equal footing in our courts. Legal systems have historically provided protection, promoted...
Timothy S. Colman
Jul 11, 20241 min read


Open Convention? Yes! DNC Zogby on Steps To Energized Democratic Nomination
Friends were asking how the open convention I want for the 2024 Democratic election would work. There is time. Here is the plan I can...
Timothy S. Colman
Jul 11, 20241 min read


July Sale + New NW bioregional collection
I ran a 4th of July sale that was so good, I'm extending our 50% off sale for July 10-14th 2024. Today a customer figured out free...
Timothy S. Colman
Jul 10, 20241 min read


4th of July Reflections from a patriot.This moment in American politics. Should I stay or should I go, Joe? Plus Wendell Berry
Our country is being run by a military industrial cartel that is driving us off the extinction cliffs with carbon pollution and...
Timothy S. Colman
Jul 4, 20243 min read


Biden will Quit Campaign by 4th July Whitmer Warnock for President
Here's my rant in the WAPO this morning on replacing LBJ er Biden. :) Biden will be out by 4th of July. My two cents and 50 years of...
Timothy S. Colman
Jul 3, 20242 min read


Poet Maya Popa writing 5 Steps to Transforming Your Life with Atomic Habits by James Clear
Coaching notes: My friend and poet Maya Popa wrote this book review on transformational habits for how we change the world in February. ...
Timothy S. Colman
Jun 29, 20245 min read


Kahlil Gibran on not fearing death
It is said that before entering the sea A river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has travelled, from the peaks of the...
Timothy S. Colman
Jun 23, 20241 min read


Homelessness in Seattle is exactly what to expect in this system
Jesus. Nick ranting about homelessness as a problem created by blue progressive states. How far off the mark can you get? Not a word in...
Timothy S. Colman
Jun 15, 20242 min read


Jewel talks about her process--beautiful story
When I consider key questions rolling with vulnerability, the questions Jewel is answering here help everyone.
Timothy S. Colman
Jun 13, 20241 min read


Timothy S. Colman
Jun 5, 20240 min read


William Yeats ramblin on about Innisfree
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there,...
Timothy S. Colman
Jun 3, 20241 min read


A poem by Adam Zagajewski from Three Angels translated by Clare Cavanagh
Someone left a marker on the Pacific ocean south of Kalaloch here in Cascadia. We don't know who we are. We are lost in the forest, and...
Timothy S. Colman
Jun 2, 20241 min read


Green Mountain by Li Po
You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down...
Timothy S. Colman
May 29, 20241 min read


Mary Oliver Sleeping In The Forest, Wendell Berry on dying
\ We come at last to the dark and enter in. We are given bodies newly made out of their absence from one another in the light of the...
Timothy S. Colman
May 28, 20241 min read


Conifer Connections: Northwest Native Species
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” ― John Muir There are 32 native conifers in the Northwest. ...
Timothy S. Colman
May 27, 20241 min read
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