Caspar, California pages

Strange, how travel plans suffuse a familiar place with foreignness as soon as they begin. As we begin thinking how to explore Italy in three months this autumn, I notice vividness and detail, beauty and unexpected strangeness right here in this village where I have lived for more than four decades...

On this page I am commemorating the First of May, and the annual Springtime walk we take on our headlands and down to the beach. This page is a work in progress, but I promise it will be ready by the time we head out for Italy...

One of the best parts of life in Caspar over the past two decades has been the reawakening of Community in Caspar. On the last page we walked on the headlands we all worked so hard to preserve ...

Three decades ago, after a short career as a teacher, I became fascinated with energy -- it became very clear to me that civilization is on a collision course with the finite nature of life on an island -- in this case, the planet earth and its enormous but nevertheless limited resources...