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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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DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS this morning: Ego’s GLOOM vs FAIR WITNESS

June 26, 2026

Today started out gloomy. Outside and inside. For months, I had been planning to attend the Midwest Permaculture Convergence. Had even paid for a camping...

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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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A LARGER PERSPECTIVE ON MY TICK TRAUMA

April 30, 2026

So, what are ticks for? Answer: they both serve as food for other species, as well as work to “cull” other species. Including humans? Yes....

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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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At 83, Older and Wiser: but for WHAT?

December 31, 2025

Note: See the many recent posts. They all tie together in subtle and not so subtle ways. Yesterday’s post was an attempt to invoke the...

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DENTRISTY: Another shibboleth trashed?

December 29, 2025

Well, here we are, another Monday in midwest winter “paradise.” With howling wind outside and much much colder temps. Yesterday and into the evening, and...

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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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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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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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Abruptly, I shift from F.E.A.R. into Aliveness . . .

June 18, 2025

Note: And I do mean abruptly! In the middle of composing this post I shifted. Spelling out my feelings in words on the page “did...

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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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Let us inhabit the open space of “contradiction”

February 19, 2025

I’ve been stretching my sore brain wide, W . . .I . . .D . . .E! — in continued attempts to surrender my current...

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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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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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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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MAHA: Make America Healthy Again. YES! For Me, LIFELONG, Daily Walks

August 28, 2024

I love RFK Jr.’s slogan, MAHA: Make America Healthy Again. So, let’s get down into the weeds, shall we? Take Lara Logan’s advice, as...

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The Kamala Kackles Konundrum

August 9, 2024

I am astonished by the media’s ability to instantly shift its visual commentary on those “in the public eye.” It did it with Biden,...

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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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Happy Halloween?

October 31, 2023

Last night, it got down to 22° outside. And suddenly, the giant elephant ears, withered! Same plant, slightly different view of it. Not only that,...

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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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LIFE ON EARTH AT THE EXISTENTIAL EDGE . . .

August 15, 2023

Email from a dear friend a few days ago, from which I excerpt here: I have SUCH a surreal feeling of late. Closest comparison...

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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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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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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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BAH HUMBUG! Lots of “reasons” for my sour attitude today, both close at hand and way out there. But . . .

May 3, 2023

After an unusually critical and vigorous primary season in this thoroughly Democratic, academic town, the mayoral candidate who garnered humongous money from developers won...

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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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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: 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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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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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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Is Charles Eisenstein’s New Story Ours? Let It Be So.

January 25, 2023

Eisenstein elucidates, descriptively and succinctly, the emergent world view of sovereign souls, at one with all. As he states: Humanity is going through...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Are My Dark/Light Moods Mirrroring Our Civilizational Deathing/Rebirthing Process?

March 22, 2022

Ever since the Ukraine drama began to unroll, echoing, but in reverse, the Cuban Missile crisis of 1963, I’ve been noticing myself flipping back and...

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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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One road from “nuclear war??!!??” to MASS ARRESTS?

March 9, 2022

PRELUDE TO ENTICEMENT IN TITLE ABOVE: Two new developments appear to support the idea that Putin is succeeding in getting his demands met in Ukraine:...

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“UKRAINE” etymology: BORDERLAND (of either Poland or Russia). Current consequences . . .

February 24, 2022

Remember the permaculture principle: “the edges are where the action is.” Furthermore, the more edge, the more action. In principle then, the more we break...

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”And you? My teacher looked up, his left eyebrow arched, pencil poised. 'I want to do a paper on the concept of time.’” I mumbled, timidly. 'Time?' He sniffed. “I wouldn’t touch the subject. Too difficult.” — AK, 1967

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).

Ann Kreilkamp / Ph.D. 83

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