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Ann Kreilkamp / Ph.D. 83

Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).

Category: Green Acres Permaculture Village

I speak with a welcome visitor

July 26, 2026

Note: I just put up a new post on greenacresvillage.org, in case you’re interested. A wonderful young woman, now 35, who lived here in our...

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OPEN SYSTEMS: Essential for Life on Earth and Beyond . . .

July 24, 2026

Remember this experiment? This failed experiment? https://x.com/SamaHoole/status/2080246967712596474?s=61&t=aUBDiSUrvn0aSlRBtZx0wQ But isn’t that the point of an experiment, to see what else must be addressed in the next...

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Goings on in Green Acres Village and Beyond — AND WITHIN!

July 20, 2026

Took an early morning 4-mile walk with Scampi on yesterday’s soon-to-be-sweltering day and came upon Elisha and Mere, out on the corner, weeding peppers. Asked...

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(Suddenly) GRATEFUL CRONE! and here’s why

July 8, 2026

Two photos tell the story in a nutshell. Elisha, whom I call “boss lady” in the garden, sent this photo via our Group Me early...

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THRESHOLDS IN TIME AND SPACE. A Multidimensional Philosophical Reflection Applied to the Material World

July 1, 2026

A local friend of mine asked if she could bring a friend of hers to our recently instituted — and unfortunately canceled for June —...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE plants love the humid heat.

June 30, 2026

Note: I forgot to publish this post yesterday. Humid high heat continues . . . plants continue to love it. Deer continue to eat gladiolas...

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IMPERMANENCE . . . in “Gloomington”

June 28, 2026

The glorious Stargazer Asiatic Lily, the latest photo of which I took yesterday, showing yet more blossoming . . . . . . came under...

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Fun with Three Oldsters on Today’s Morning Walk

June 20, 2026

Geez! Started walking to our local Bloomingfoods Co-op this morning (about a mile away) to get my weekly loaf of Muddy Fork’s great gluten free...

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URANUS RETURNS, and POW! Get serious, Ann.

May 29, 2026

From the I Ching, Wilhelm version, another copy of which I just purchased, since I don’t know where my old one went. What’s interesting to...

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URANUS (in Gemini) RETURN: Day 2 of four-day documentation. Geez!

May 22, 2026

Note: This is part of a series. Not sure how long it will be. See Uranus Return posts from last two days. This time I...

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In an era of exponentially increasing total bullshit, STAY REAL.

May 13, 2026

I’ve just heard from Dave, the City Council member who introduced a resolution to stop AI here in Bloomington Indiana. https://www.youtube.com/@safeaiforever (I plan to listen...

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NEPTUNE IN ARIES: Starting Over; Lost in Fog of Unknowing

May 7, 2026

Yep. Epistemology is enjoying/enduring a meltdown. There seems to be no way to tell whether any bit, dot, “fact,” theory, hypotheses, data point, etc. is...

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REFLECTIONS: mostly detailed rant on how long daily walks dissolve left-brain doom-scrolling harm and invigorate right-brain/heart (and soul!)

May 6, 2026

First: I notice that my three posts referencing ticks (April 26-28) were relatively “unpopular” with readers. Does this mean that ticks have not yet arrived...

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Two substackers who lift veils for me: Elizabeth Nickson and Unbekoming

May 5, 2026

Recent examples of the deep-seeking and wide-ranging posts each creates, both from May 2, 2026.   Elizabeth NicksonHere’s how it starts:   Unbekoming (for his...

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Alt-Epistemology? Or: Mars rules, damn it!

April 21, 2026

Note: Alt-Epistemology ebook here: https://tendrepress.com/alt-epistemology/   A number of conversations, both in groups, and one to one, have annoyed me recently. Or maybe I should...

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Walking Reflections on the Future of Education: Indiana University (with photos)

April 15, 2026

Scampi and I took a walk through the mile-long IU campus today (its eastern edge about 6 blocks from where I live) and I brought...

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OF TWO MINDS (as usual): The Iranian Knot and Gravelling the Paths

March 23, 2026

This morning, as I set off for another weekly run of four mornings in a row on this blog, I was flummoxed. Couldn’t help but...

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REFLECTIONS: On Re-Centering inside Iran Perplexity

March 4, 2026

I must admit . . . this Iran perplexity is getting to me. Is climbing inside me, coursing through me. Not what actually is happening...

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What I PERSONALLY went through during our Collective Lift-off

February 18, 2026

Yesterday, on lift-off day (See posts for Monday and Tuesday), when I woke up this image came into my mind: of a flock of cardinals,...

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Astrology Mirrors my Neptunian/Utopian Spirit

December 24, 2025

Note: See Monday and Tuesday posts. Hold on to your hats. This post will look technical, since I’m putting two astro charts inside it. Astrologers...

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Reflections on Utopia

December 23, 2025

From yesterday’s post: . . . and noticing how the details of the book internally resonated . . . Yes. Very much so. In fact,...

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Yesterday evening, my first public talk in Bloomington

December 9, 2025

Remember this? Yesterday evening was the long-awaiting event where I spoke in public about Green Acres Village. As I introduced myself to those present (about...

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THE TURNING POINT: How TOXIC BRAIN Cleansed — Overnight!

November 20, 2025

Note: See yesterday’s post. Last night seems to have possibly signaled a crucial turning point in this current highly eruptive, first ever Uranus Return phase...

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Last week’s dilemma not solved, but dissolved.

November 17, 2025

I assumed that my supposedly three days each week “free” (from this blog) would likely be taken up with continuing cogitations . . . See...

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Formerly “mute,” I unleash the throat

November 4, 2025

Oh my! In response to yesterday’s post, dear friend Laura Bruno just reminded me of one line in an email to her a few days...

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Is the US about to experience its own (version of) “Hunger Games”?

October 28, 2025

Yesterday, as I was thinking about personal implications of the fact that November 1 may signal the day to live on in infamy, meaning the...

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My weekend at the 2nd annual INTENTION CONVENTION

October 6, 2025

Friday late afternoon through Sunday late morning, I drove from Bloomington 55 minutes east on North State Road 67 to Sage Valley, a 17-acre eco-village...

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(My) MASTER PLAN: Uranus Returns to put my life in perspective

September 25, 2025

See last post. Well, I “got myself back together” overnight. Sorta. Kinda. Not easy to do when  interruptive, volatile, crazy-making transit Uranus is still sitting...

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WHICH WAY DO WE LIVE? With fear in our hearts, or with love?

September 11, 2025

A part of me felt that maybe I should not have posted yesterday’s piece, questioning the reality of the Charlotte N.C. murder. Because the one...

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SEVEN WORDS OF WISDOM, part 1: “Yutori,” “Meliorism”

August 26, 2025

I’ve decided to spend some time, this lovely, sun-dappled morning, during which I have already taken my four mile walk plus watered the back yard...

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At 82 years, NOT EXACTLY SLOWING DOWN, BUT . . .

July 24, 2025

Unlike just about everybody I know, I don’t DO western medicine, except for Orthopedics (two broken wrists in last ten years), and, possibly, Emergency, (for...

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Two Worthwhile Reposts: The One Follows the Other

July 21, 2025

First from Laura Bruno, her reading for the upcoming New Moon in Leo. And by the way, I think she’s absolutely right about how the...

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The stinking corruption symbolized by the word “Epstein”

July 17, 2025

  Before I begin this god-awful piece on the stinking corruption symbolized by the word “Epstein,”  remember, in the memorable words of Zach Bush, M.D.:...

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As my first and only URANUS RETURN begins: A Retrospective

July 16, 2025

Note: the “meaning” of any planet in one’s life is gleaned from the first experience of  its cycle as a whole. Saturn, for example, with...

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More on Trusting Trump

July 8, 2025

Let’s make one thing clear. The word “trust” can be used in two ways. The first is predictability, so that, if one is “trustworthy,” it...

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MEME STREAM as we burst into July, 2025

July 1, 2025

Who would have known that my concentration as a doctoral student in philosophy at Boston University, way back between 1966 and 1972, namely EPISTEMOLOGY, would...

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Let Us Manifest Our Shared Bounty!

June 2, 2025

Our Green Acres Permaculture Village garden this year is stupendous! Massive amounts of many different veggies. Never has it been this productive. Two shots from...

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Saturn/Neptune in Aries: HUGE SURPRISE, FOR ME.

May 26, 2025

After I published the last post, on Thursday May 22 (I’m taking Fridays through Sundays off, for the time being) my astute friend and astrologer...

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POST-TRIP: Looking around . . . and almost regretting it.

May 21, 2025

If you aren’t on twitter/X at this point, please do get on there. I know it’s confusing, and takes up way too much of your...

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May 1, BELTANE! Let Us Scatter Fertile Seeds of Endless Love

May 1, 2025

Here we are. May 1: Beltane! One of the four seasonal cross-quarter days, this one celebrates the fullness of Spring, nature’s and human fertility. I...

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COMING RIGHT UP? And if so, BLACKOUT BRILLIANCE!

April 30, 2025

Researching for this post, I searched duck duck go this morning, for answer to  “blackouts occurred recently in Spain and where else and for how...

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A Personal Encounter with the Demonic

April 22, 2025

Several days ago, I was out on my morning walk with puppy Scampi when I came across an old friend, about my age, whom I...

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Yesterday’s Auspicious Meeting of Minds and Hearts!

April 15, 2025

On a downtown street yesterday evening, on my way to the Brownstone Institute Midwest Supper Club held here in Bloomington, once again very much looking...

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Let us cultivate our own internal Flower Garden.

April 3, 2025

This brought tears to my eyes. Silly me, I know. Why flowers? For heaven’s sake, you can’t eat them, and what we need is food,...

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Sudden (Yurt) Emergency: working together; ’twas both fun and necessary!

April 2, 2025

In this first-ever-since-the-U.S.-Civil-War Neptune in Aries season, Have you noticed? It’s crucial to remain centered, no matter what? Who knows what will rush down the...

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From Pisces to Aries: Our deepest challenges are LOCAL

April 1, 2025

Please realize: No matter what I put up at any point in this blog, it’s provisional, speculative, a scattering of shots in the dark. WHO...

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GOOD NEWS! “Sky-Shielding Movement”

March 25, 2025

As I watch the sometimes clear blue skies at dawn begin to crisscross with dripping, spreading chemtrails all the rest of the day, it’s becoming...

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PAUL CUDENEC OVERVIEW: “one massive world-spanning public-private criminal enterprise”

February 8, 2025

While I’m not at all convinced that the various interconnected parts of the onrolling totalitarian takeover Cudenec depicts will actually succeed (nor is he), given...

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ALIVENESS: real or faked? Choose.

February 4, 2025

As I go about the world, mostly on foot, I find myself more and more astounded by the extreme differential between my 82-year-old vigor and...

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THE HEAVENS SPEAK: Uranus turned to go direct yesterday, exactly on my natal Moon . . .

February 1, 2025

Oops! I thought I actually posted this piece yesterday. It turns out, NOT. So everything I say here will be one day late . ....

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Of WHOMPS, and WALKING, and the primacy of the BODY

January 17, 2025

Will the slowly moving concrete ice on the DeKist roof go WHOMP today? If you’re like me, you wouldn’t go in and out the back...

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My Experience of Last Night’s “Supper Club” Launch

January 14, 2025

While walking the two miles downtown to Lennie’s at 6 PM, heading for the launch of the Brownstone Institute’s Midwest Supper Club, I felt invigorated,...

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TONIGHT, DATE WITH DESTINY? Brownstone Institute Inaugural Midwest Supper club

January 13, 2025

I’ve long enjoyed the immensely sensible, even-handed essays by Jeffrey Tucker, the founder, president, editor, and author of the Brownstone Institute. For example, this, from...

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Glitches, Gladness, Gratitude: Yesterday’s draft post folded into this one

January 10, 2025

Oops! The paragraphs in italics that follow the first three paragraphs of this post were in draft form yesterday, but then my computer glitched and...

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Terrence McKenna: “This is what it’s like when a species decides to depart for the stars. . .

October 21, 2024

The mushrooms spoke to me . . .”   Twenty five years ago, Terrence McKenna foretold what appears, in the main, at least “in the...

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At Green Acres, Balancing the Opposites, Here and Now

October 7, 2024

See Saturday’s post. Yesterday’s daytime screen fast was mostly successful, though I did have to check twice on emails. In fact, almost immediately I felt...

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Sudden Surprising Uranian Swerve! WHEE . . .

September 27, 2024

Wow . . . I continue to be amazed at how my experience with the political culture in this town is a fractal of every...

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Mother Renee to the rescue . . .

September 26, 2024

See recent posts. Oh my . . . yesterday, in the midst of my interior turbulence, I decided to do my daily yoga/chikung/taichi practices out...

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Still deep in contentious local drama. My helpers? Dane Rudhyar and Clif High

September 25, 2024

I’m still deep in the contentious local drama that pits the integrity and sanctity of my historic neighborhood of affordable small homes against the so-called...

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Hello again, from the trenches . . .

September 23, 2024

So, it appears that the chaos expected as shown through the title of my last post, on September 18, over four days ago, descended upon...

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PATTY GREER: Crop Circles Come Up from Below

August 31, 2024

In these days, when human beings are encouraged to lift off the earth, even when walking down the street, watching our phone rather than our...

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DAVID MEETS GOLIATH: 5 PM, Bloomington City Hall

August 12, 2024

The Bloomington Historic Commission meets at 5 PM today, August 12, to decide whether or not to send our Application to preserve Green Acres Neighborhood...

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“Two different worlds, we live in . . .” MINE/OURS — AND THEIRS

August 6, 2024

Yesterday, friend Dan, who lived here in this house for four years, and the another year in the third house (of Green Acres Permaculture Village),...

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ONLY IN GREEN ACRES: “Okay, well I have the goose now . . .”

February 5, 2024

  ‘Twas walking down the street with puppy Shadow this morning when I came across Enaba, about ready to get in her car. She lives...

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Green Acres Permaculture Village: “The Anointing of the Tools”

January 28, 2024

TWO MORE WORKSHOPS: seeds, lists, tools, and puns

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Kickin’ Ass in Green Acres

January 21, 2024

LET THE NEW YEAR BEGIN! Work party to care for large tools, and more.

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Yesterday’s Daily Dilly Dally Shilly Shally . . .

January 11, 2024

Having been prompted internally to use the title above — yes, weird! — I looked up the meaning of both dilly dally and shilly shally,...

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As New Year begins . . . “I, SAGITTARIUS”

January 2, 2024

1/1/2024: FIRST NEW POST IN FIVE MONTHS! Meanwhile, I remain dedicated to my archival/recapitulation project, and might call it “I, Sagittarius,” with my double-Sagittarian astro...

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Early Morning, after Longest Night of the Year, THIS!

December 22, 2023

  My amaryllis, Matilda, after bulging for what, ten days? bloomed overnight. Bloomed during the longest night of the year. Here she is at dawn....

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Taking a Birthday Break, after this one final offering: IMPLICATIONS OF UFO IN THE BIBLE

December 14, 2023

  This will be my last post until (probably) Friday, December 22rd. During the interim I am going on a three day break (Dec 18-20)...

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Once again, I am obsessed. This time with amaryllis. WHY?

December 6, 2023

Back in the early ’80s, I was living in a 20-foot diameter yurt in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, directly across from the Tetons. As you can...

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My Jaundiced View of Jordan Peterson’s “Alliance for Responsible Citizenship”

November 28, 2023

Wikipedia: One Australian journalist identified the purpose of ARC as follows: “to replace a sense of division and drift within conservatism, and Western society at...

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Did-Shadow-Eat-Turkey-Bones Drama/Trauma Appears Over

November 25, 2023

Note the caveat, “appears.” Not quite 48 hours yet. See below.  Post-Thanksgiving Vigil, i.e., reverberating drama/trauma, over. SO OVER! I watched 15-year-old puppy Shadow closely...

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Astrology, Personal Stories: Alternatives to Armageddon

November 19, 2023

Note: Wow. Wrote this on November 17, and forgot to post it . . . Still relevant, so I will now.  And BTW: just yesterday,...

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On the Meme Narrative Trail, Again . . .

November 18, 2023

On walk with puppy Shadow this morning, I was noticing that I just don’t want to try to figure out what’s happening in the larger...

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I am a nervous wreck; I find ways to center, balance and ground myself.

October 24, 2023

For the nervous wreck part, please read the post I just put up on son Colin’s caring bridge site — cuz I sure don’t want to...

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Up from under, briefly . . .

August 26, 2023

I have begun a caring bridge site for Colin, where I can put whatever notices to many different people who want them as a central...

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GLOBAL “UNIFYING” HOAX, # 2: The Climate Change Card . . .

July 30, 2023

  Besides the alien card, there’s the climate change card, or, maybe, both? Either one aims to “unite” the global population under centralized, totalitarian control,...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: Mid-July 2023, lots goin’ on . . .

July 23, 2023

Mid-July, 2023: Work Parties, Community Dinner, Arborist-in-Training!

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Green Acres Village: Summertime, mostly in the garden . . .

July 16, 2023

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As I was about to head out into the garden . . . MARTIN GEDDES!

July 11, 2023

  Giving me plenty of food for thought to chew on while weeding. As usual.   I first discovered this unusually deep and broad thinker...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE, Saturday, June 2023: FUN WORK PARTY

June 25, 2023

June 23, 2023 Work Party: We (Selectively) Clear An Overgrown, Neglected Front Garden . . .

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HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE!

June 21, 2023

    This year’s Summer Solstice moment, when the Sun moved into 0°00 Cancer and reached its annual fullness, occurred at 10:58 AM EDT today....

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: Spring (now Summer) Clean-Up Saga Underway

June 13, 2023

This summer’s cleanup carries long, not so fond, memories . . .  

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ASTROLOGY: TED KACZYNSKI, archetypal (anti) hero who predicted our future

June 12, 2023

  If ever there was an archetypal (anti)hero who recognized, precisely articulated, and spelled out the dire civilizational consequences of unbridled technology it was Ted...

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Green Acres Village: Early June, Busy Busy!

June 4, 2023

Early June, 2023: Community Dinner, Work Party, Yurt Details

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Decision Time, Folks. FEAR? OR LOVE.

May 29, 2023

  Fear contracts. Love expands. Which do YOU choose? If we are driven by fear, we can be controlled by outside forces. That’s their goal....

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HOW DO WE LEARN? TAKE HEED: “Psychedelics and Psychopaths”

May 26, 2023

  The push to decriminalize psychedelics and other non-pharmaceutical drugs, including even “weed,” means that we have to be even more aware of our own...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: May Community Dinners Offer High Contrast

May 24, 2023

HIGH CONTRAST, This Month’s Community Dinners: May 5 and May 18

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NEW BEGINNINGS: Let’s Put Up the Yurt!

May 23, 2023

  Wittgenstein: “It’s difficult to go back to the beginning, and not go further back.” When does anything begin or end? If the universe is...

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Delay delay delay; plumbing problems . . .

May 22, 2023

  Wouldn’t you know. Just as I was getting ready to do the promised post with lots of photos, collages, and a tiny video, all...

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FIRST MORNING, from my bedroom window . . .

May 21, 2023

  Correction; From my dirty bedroom window . . . long dreamed vision, looping me back to all those magical years in a 20-foot diameter...

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YURT RAISING DAY, in just a few minutes . . .

May 20, 2023

I thought I’d show you the platform here, which is finally done. A bunch of folks are converging for this task in a few minutes ...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: Mother’s Day 2023

May 14, 2023

STATE OF THE PLACE ON MOTHER’S DAY 2023 It begins . . . Well well well! After more than a year of waiting impatiently (which...

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Let us Choose: BELTANE BLUES? or BELTANE BIRDS.

May 1, 2023

  Amazingly enough, I “forgot” that yesterday was Beltane Eve when I posted a decidedly Beltane-ish post. https://annkreilkamp.net/2023/04/30/green-acres-village-spring-is-sprung/ This morning, a friend of mine reminded...

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Green Acres Village: SPRING IS SPRUNG!

April 30, 2023

SPRING IS SPRUNG! Thank you Mother Earth!

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Mercury turns to go retrograde TODAY

April 21, 2023

  The solar eclipse New Moon in 29° Aries shading into 0° Taurus occurred April 19-20. Now, only one day later, at 4:34 AM today,...

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Let Us “HEAL THE DIVIDE,” World-Wide

April 20, 2023

  “Heal the Divide” is one of two significant slogans of the newly announced Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential campaign. The other is . ....

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POST-2 AM-ANXIETY: Clif High! Laura Bruno! Mother Earth!

April 13, 2023

Last night I lay awake for about four hours, starting at 2 AM (liver time), immobilized by what I can only call anxiety — an...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: First 2023 Patio Event, “Hardening Starts,” Extra Work Party tomorrow!

April 12, 2023

Let’s start with the last item mentioned. And here’s why! This week we have taken out the larger baby plants to “harden off” them outside....

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: Planting perennial flowers!

April 4, 2023

  April 4, and it actually feels like spring! P.S. I was outside with the soil in between the first two Trump Arraignment posts I...

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TWO GREY HEADS . . .

March 28, 2023

. . . in our Green Acres Permaculture Village greenhouse, potting up seedlings, discussing the state of the world. Knowing that I see things very...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: Saturday work party, we plant seeds and more

March 5, 2023

Work Party 3/4/23: we plant herb seeds and more

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JOHN ZERZAN: “It is our responsibility to overcome what our culture has created.”

February 16, 2023

  Yesterday, on our morning walk, puppy Shadow and I were fortunate to be accompanied by Dan, an old friend and former Green Acres Village...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: Saturday work party turns, and turns again . . .

February 12, 2023

Work Party Saturday: We Make an Abrupt U-Turn, and Yet Another One, Spiralling into Quiet Joy . . . Sorry folks, cannot upload images to...

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Green Acres Village: ARE THE PROPS THE PLAY?

January 29, 2023

Lots still going on . . . AND ON! (Are the props the play?)

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LIFE INSIDE THE MAELSTROM: As Usual, on the Surface. But Just Below?

January 28, 2023

  I look at my own life, and none of the scary stuff we’re told about is obvious; daily routines continue as usual. Work parties...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE, Mid-January 2023

January 22, 2023

Lots Going On, Despite Winter Weather!

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: Cleaning, Organizing, Preparing for Year Ahead

January 15, 2023

Almost Mid-January, 2023: Cleaning/Organizing, Greenhouse and Basement — and more!

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If you could get free land, would you move there?

December 27, 2022

    As we sink into winter in our little Green Acres Permaculture Village, a three-home holding interlaced with  gardens, paths, patio, chicken house, greenhouse,...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: Seed Saving Victory! Plus Tool Upkeep

December 17, 2022

Seed Saving Victory! Plus Cleaning, Sharpening, Oiling Tools

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Eat Crow, Kreilkamp!

December 5, 2022

  (I thought I’d published this a few hours ago. But nope. Still in draft form. Okay, my slightly woozy self will tweak it a...

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THREE HOLES BY THE BENCH: A Tall Tale for Troubled Times

November 22, 2022

  Not that this tale is “tall” in the sense that it’s exaggerated or untrue. Just that I have to stand tall to be able...

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In Late 2022, Some Rants Are Justified . . .

November 18, 2022

  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/must-watch-man-unloads-maricopa-county-board-supervisors-cancer-tearing-nation-apart/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=2022-11-18   The steal, this time, was so blatant that my optimistic Sagittarian self assumes it must be the final rub-in-your-face to the still...

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Election Day Prediction: SHOCK, PLUS CONFUSION

November 8, 2022

  Here we are, on this election day like no other, introduced by the full blood moon total lunar eclipse that began around 3:00 AM...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: Early November Goings’ On

November 6, 2022

Early November 2022: Weekly Rhythm plus Halloween and a Kids’ Garden Plot  

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King Tiger the Conquerer

October 28, 2022

Out in the main garden putting beds to bed this morning, when Tiger decided to climb the hoop that this year had supported tomatoes. Never...

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For those who cannot sleep; for those who have trouble staying awake . . .

October 27, 2022

  If you’re like me, then you have trouble falling asleep unless you are listening to “the news” of some kind. (Weird, I know.) My...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: As October nears its end, garden work continues

October 23, 2022

Garden Work continues. I especially love this photo of Joseph, using a machete to hack back the bambooish stalk thicket that springs up every year...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE, October 16, 2022: Autumn’s Alchemy

October 16, 2022

October 16, 2022: AUTUMN’S ALCHEMY: Plant, Animal, Human

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Green Acres Village: Harvesting Goji Berries — and more!

October 9, 2022

October 7, 2022: Harvesting Goji Berries — and more

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UP FROM UNDER . . .

October 8, 2022

See last post. Just an FYI: We in Green Acres Village have endured an intense interpersonal drama this past week which has finally resolved itself....

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Meloni not who she seems? Nordstream sabotage? YE GODS!

September 27, 2022

  Yesterday I was so moved by Meloni’s speech that I didn’t even think to question her sincerity. Like all of us, I want so...

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New Moon in Libra, 9/25/22, 5:55 PM

September 24, 2022

Laura Bruno does a fine job delineating the possibilities within this New Moon. Remember, New Moons are seeds of new beginnings. Couple this with my...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: Friday Work Party, pulling weeds, plus Joseph “hack”

September 18, 2022

https://greenacresvillage.org/september-18-2022-friday-work-party- pulling-weeds-joseph-hack/

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Green Acres Village, late summer scenes . . .

September 4, 2022

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DISSONANCE DEPARTMENT: Trump, “The Plan,” the Vax — and Tomatoes!

August 30, 2022

  Seems like it might be . . . that we’re here:   That the long wait has been worth it, because it (may have)...

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Open, Open OPEN! WE MAVERICKS ARE “CHROMATICS”

August 22, 2022

This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post, and Michael Driver does a great job  in delineating what it means to be actually, purposefully, FREE. It...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: Late Summer in the Gardens

August 21, 2022

LATE SUMMER: new people plans as we work with the natural world

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HMMMM . . . What Happens to My Body When I Die?

August 20, 2022

  At nearly 80 years old, my body is approaching its sell by date. What do I want done with it once my personality dissolves,...

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DOOM, OR BOON? Our choice, each of us alone, all of us together

August 17, 2022

I had nearly forgotten about Chris Hedges, the extraordinarily passionate and articulate author whom I first came across during the Occupy movement. Can you believe?...

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Green Acres Permaculture Village, August 14: INTERREGNUM

August 14, 2022

INTERREGNUM . . .

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Re: Last night’s Alex Jones post: EGG ON MY FACE!

August 6, 2022

I just, this morning, added this note to last night’s post . . . Yesterday’s post needs a correction, due to a factual error. It...

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The current Mars/Uranus/North Node in Taurus at work — with backstory

August 1, 2022

Way back in the spring of 2020, when the so-called “pandemic” had just been declared, and the entire global population seemed to have locked down...

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Reflections on . . . SURPRISE LILIES!!!

July 29, 2022

I remember seeing three surprise lilies (aka “naked ladies,” “resurrection lilies”) last summer right by the steps of my front porch. Was enchanted, the way...

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Green Acres Village, Mid-Summer: Transformation is the Name of the Game!

July 24, 2022

July 24, 2022: Mid-Summer Transformations!

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Hitchhiker, during the first “oil shock,” 1973: “THE ENERGY CRISIS IS . . . IN US!”

July 20, 2022

I remember riding as a backseat hitchhiker in San Francisco, late 1973. The driver was kvetching about the cost of gas. The front seat passenger,...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: Rain here, Drought elsewhere, and Community Dinner

July 17, 2022

Rain here, Drought elsewhere — and Community Dinner

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Concerning the Global Food Crisis: LET US TRANSFORM DANGER INTO OPPORTUNITY

July 14, 2022

  Everything dysfunctional, whether planned or not, in our current dystopian reality is surfacing more and more, to the point where systems, held in place...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: Midsummer Message and Photos

July 10, 2022

July 10, 2022: We Enjoy, and Share the Surplus of, Nature’s Gifts in Summer

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MORE ON GEORGIA GUIDESTONES — Plus Plutonian/Uranian Perspective on Other Monuments

July 8, 2022

Note: See yesterday’s post. Oops! I stand corrected. The explosion did occur at 4:03:33 AM. Got it? NOT 3:33; 4:03:33. Mea culpa. Which confirms the...

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Green Acres Village: CABBAGE BONANZA!

July 5, 2022

Cabbage Bonanza!

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MIND burned out, I turn to NATURE.

July 2, 2022

What nourishes me during this time of trial is the garden, the soil, the trees, the bees, the birds, the insects, the seeds, the flowers...

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GREEN ACRES VILLAGE: I participate in a forum with people from diverse “intentional communities”

June 28, 2022

Way back in March 2022, Cynthia, a FIC host at the Foundation for Intentional Community, invited me, as founder of Green Acres Permaculture Village,  to...

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Summer Solstice Offerings — and beyond!

June 21, 2022

Today was Tuesday morning work party in Green Acres Permaculture Village. A few of us looked around at the surplus, and decided it’s time to...

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Happy Summer Solstice!

June 21, 2022

6:30 AM. Our goldenraintree’s flowers kiss the rising Summer Solstice Sun. the rising Summer Solstice Sun

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TWO WORLDS continue to run parallel . . . WHICH WORLD DO YOU CHOOSE?

June 16, 2022

Yesterday, I took the car to the grocery store. Just too damn hot to walk in late afternoon (94° temp, 105° heat index). Indiana sits...

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REFLECTIONS ON GRATITUDE

June 8, 2022

This morning I spoke with a neighbor across the street who had just returned from staying on Martha’s vineyard where, on top of a little...

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Mercury, Saturn both stationary today, turning in opposite directions: “THIS PROJECT FEELS PERSONAL!”

June 4, 2022

And . . . I just noticed this remarkable planetary combination! Actually, I had a sneaking suspicion that Mercury turned to go direct today, from...

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NATURE IS MY RELIGION

June 4, 2022

Note: See yesterday’s post. My mother, to me, probably 50 years ago. “Why don’t you go to church anymore?” Me: “Nature is my church.” Mom,...

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Green Acres Village, end of May: RE-PURPOSING!

May 29, 2022

End of May Yurt Prep Continues: RE-PURPOSING!

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THE PROBLEM IS THE SOLUTION: Increase in Food Insecurity Invites Return to Nature’s Abundance

May 26, 2022

If you’re like me, you’ve long recognized that the toxic combination of monocultured, pesticided, genetically modified corn, soy, wheat and other grains that get “processed”...

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POST-LUNAR ECLIPSE: Personal reflections; Martin Geddes evolution into a “conspiracy theorist”

May 16, 2022

I don’t know. Did I already mention that last night’s Scorpio/Taurus Full Moon/Total Lunar Eclipse sat right on my own Moon at 23° Taurus? (Unfortunately,...

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Here’s PROOF: I am living as if there will be a future. And you?

May 12, 2022

In the midst of what appears to be universal despair — especially that the clownish Buyden administration would do anything, anything, to begin to get...

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Green Acres Village: And how Does Our Garden Grow?

May 8, 2022

May 2-7: And how does our garden grow? PHOTOS GALORE

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Sun conjunct Uranus in Taurus, and more: WATCH YOUR TONGUE, ANN!

May 2, 2022

Confession. It’s getting more difficult for me to “hold my tongue.” In fact, I’ve failed on several occasions in the past 18 hours, one of...

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NATIVE PERENNIALS: Both plants and people!

May 1, 2022

Yesterday morning, Marita and I worked to get both kudzu (Invasive Plant that Ate the South) and eunymous (native to Asia, invasive “winter creeper” here)...

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SPRING SURPRISE: Mourning Dove Lays Eggs on Tines of A Rake

April 26, 2022

This past week, apparently, without any of us in Green Acres Permaculture Village realizing it, right across from the Overhill kitchen window a mourning dove...

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SIGNS OF TOWN/GOWN UNIFICATION? Or: Puppy Shadow, the Ambassador!

April 25, 2022

This past Saturday: Burning Couch Music Festival, five doors down from Green Acres Permaculture Village . . . Hold on, friends, this is a long...

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April 19-24: Green Acres Village News

April 24, 2022

I have exciting news to share with you tomorrow, re: a current event that suddenly softened the long-entrenched town/gown polarity here in Bloomington, Indiana. Meanwhile,...

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IN ORDER TO BYPASS NUCLEAR WAR WE WILL BIRTH THE NEW WORLD

April 21, 2022

One of our GAPV residents told me this morning of a recent dream in which a blue, yellow, and white backdrop was waving behind a...

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LET US BE GRATEFUL FOR EARTH’S UBIQUITOUS DANDELION!

April 8, 2022

Early April. While we slave over our edible annuals, nursing them along in our greenhouses —   — just outside, dandelions, “the most widespread and...

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Permaculture Pioneer David Holmgren on “Hacking the Suburbs”

April 5, 2022

Yesterday afternoon I got a call from Hugh Farrell, our local impresario who focuses on utilizing alternative legal structures to create and transform habitations that...

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Green Acres Village: BEHOLD, THE FLOURISHING!

April 3, 2022

I took over the responsibility of writing posts for the Green Acres Permaculture Village website, on which I’ve posted five or six times on Sundays,...

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FROM BIG AG TO LOCAL: How, in my mind, any consideration detonates others

March 16, 2022

Do you realize that both during World War I, with “War Gardens” — https://communityofgardens.si.edu/exhibits/show/historycommunitygardens/wartimegardens — and during World War II, with “Victory Gardens,” — which,...

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FOOD SHORTAGES? Let us turn crisis into opportunity, at home, with our neighbors

March 12, 2022

Add these up: supply line interruptions, most fertilizer and 30% of world’s wheat no longer coming from Russia, plus massive inflation affecting food and transport...

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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? “The sky’s the limit,” meaning: THERE IS NO LIMIT.

March 8, 2022

This feels like an “end of winter” post, when everything’s melting down and we don’t know what is what. None of the old structures, visible...

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Green Acres Village now gets a, once weekly, Sunday post from me . . .

March 6, 2022

First Week March: repotting seedlings, fixing garage, blueberries and bluebells (with chicken) Powered by ann.kreilkamp

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Green Acres Village internet site is revving back up!

February 27, 2022

Though I promised myself I’d take Sundays off from posting on this site, I do want to let you know that our greenacresvillage.org site, which...

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2.22.2022 WOW! Pluto Return for the U.S.A, and my own “Personally Processing Pluto” of one Saturn cycle ago

February 22, 2022

So many 2’s! My own birth path is a “master number”  11, which reduces to a 2 — and after many decades I’m well aware...

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What Is Integrity? TRUTH AND VALUES

February 18, 2022

To me, integrity has to do with courage to tell the truth of one’s personal experience, which stems from the values one lives by. Examples...

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Please forgive this narcissistic post! Or is it just “confessional”?

January 23, 2022

I know this is a month past Solstice, but I want you to see what Janet, with whom I have resumed Sunday 8 AM LAF...

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FULL MOON IN CANCER punctuates increased influence of TAURUS . . .

January 17, 2022

Why do I say this? Hopefully, by the end of this blog post you will know. First, here’s the Full Moon chart, set for the...

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THE VACCINE RACKET

January 14, 2022

What’s a racket? In a recent post, Clif High calls out Rand Paul as one of the politicians who owns stocks in companies that profit...

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FROM FAUCI TO FARMING, I reorient my (paranoid? realistic?) self to be HERE, and NOW.

January 12, 2022

Fauci Given that the fear porn that drove the “pandemic” is now being exposed on many levels and by many sources as a tissue of...

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PANDEMIC AS A PRISM: An Unusually Deep, Resonant Conversation

January 11, 2022

  I want to thank both Charles Eisenstein and Paul Kingsnorth for this illuminating discussion. Though I’m tempted to say “pandemic as a prison,” the...

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Trump, “the pandemic” and “the vaccine” re-considered, PLUS . . .

January 6, 2022

Reverberations from Trump’s recent and ongoing remarks on the “vaccines” continue, as those with complex, layered perspectives put out commentary that to me, makes a...

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On My 79th Birthday, Debut Singing Performance!

December 20, 2021

Back in on December 19, 1942, at 8:02 AM, in San Antonio, Texas, I was born a few minutes before the Sun peaked over the...

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Today, December 18, my own “Solar Return,” occurs approximately 12 hours prior to the Full Moon

December 18, 2021

One’s “solar return” will be either on the same day as or the day prior to one’s official birthday. In my case, birthday is December...

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You’re not the only one who wonders if everything you’ve ever beLIEved is false!

December 12, 2021

Looking back on my long life, I notice that it has been governed by two seemingly diametrically opposed Big Ideas. The first felt decidedly negative:...

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On the 80th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor: Reflections on the Aftermath of World War II and What Is Needed Now

December 7, 2021

December 7, 1941, 80 years ago today, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and ignited the entrance of the U.S. into World War II. Most of...

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One Antidote to the Covid Con: STACK FUNCTIONS!

November 16, 2021

I saw this headline a few days ago: Indiana Will Be Home to Largest Solar Farm in the U.S. Covering 13000 Acres And it made...

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A Brief Note about Halloween

October 28, 2021

We are going to piggy back our Halloween Party on to our Thursday evening Green Acres Village Community Dinner. That’s tonight. A few words about...

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Reflections on Impermanence: “But did you die?”

October 21, 2021

On our way home from our morning walk, this time on the wooded hilly trails at nearby Griffy Lake (I have to keep a colorful...

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NEXT STEP: We RECOGNIZE That We Are Building A Parallel Economy and Culture

October 16, 2021

coreysdigs.com/solutions Five Ways to Financial Security While Building Thriving Communities Outside the System Reminder oh you other outsiders, LAF meditation tomorrow morning 8 am, your...

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My Sunday LAF meditation turns decidedly personal . . .

October 10, 2021

An old friend, Janet, now located in South America, and I got together again over the phone for our weekly Sunday 8 AM (your time...

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1994 Essay: Building the Snow Castle

October 2, 2021

I listened to a podcast during my rest period this afternoon, one that featured Julian Rose, an elder with whom I have long felt an...

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How, who, and what’s driving the GLOBAL GENOCIDAL NIGHTMARE? Karen Kingston, Tim Gielen

September 30, 2021

I have not watched either of these yet, but I will! Pant pant! The first, an interview with whistleblower and medical analyst Karen Kingston who...

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I prepare for the Arizona Audit, knowing full well that the world is about to go bonkers

September 24, 2021

Wild. I posted a chart and interpretation for the Arizona Audit report yesterday, and then forgot this morning, that it was set for 1 pm...

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Ann Kreilkamp

Ann Kreilkamp

Ph.D. 83

Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).