World of McCool

So much is happening! It makes sense that our brains have to filter out ninety nine percent of the things our senses could be picking up on, because if they didn’t it would be a lot harder to live out the parabolic dramas we so love, these arcs of time and cycles of life […]

I awoke before dawn and slipped into the garage to grab the telescope. Jupiter was shining bright, and I had specifically taken the telescope out of the car garage (which gets closed at night) and put into the other garage, which we call the porch. It’s our smoking deck and general discussion area. […]

Greetings my friends! Life carries on in Oregon, with hot afternoons but cool nights and clear skies. I’ve taken to sleeping on the trampoline rather than in my hammock, primarily for the excellent view it affords me of the stars as I lie and wait for sleep. Spectacular!
Only my heart […]

For many years, I’ve thought that it would be cool to spend some time in a studio and record some music. Several of my friends have have studio programs and record quite a bit of music, but I’ve never invested the time or money into it. I’m not, nor will I ever be, […]

So only a couple of days after our big food forest event, we had a bunch more people out for a party to celebrate Litha, the summer solstice. A lot of the same people actually, but this time we had Josh and Jennifer and their whole crew. In the last post I believe […]

Today was a big day out at Gateway Gardens, which we also call the Gateway Food Forest. We doubled the significance of that latter term today by putting in Food Forest II, or FF2. The hillside below the house, once overrun with wild weeds tall enough to tickle your chin, has become a […]

Dear Friends
I’ve decided to check back in with this old site, which I’ve left pretty static for a while. My last updates were several months ago, right when I got started with my Permaculture design course. I was excited enough about that class to want to start writing on the blog again, but […]

With a soft whitish whirl, my consciousness dives into the matrix, where I see not the screen before me, but the faces and thoughts of friends, images of the wildest things conceivable, and brilliant connections between billions of glowing dots, flashing flickering and fading into a single illuminated sphere when seen from far enough away. […]

Hello everyone. Indeed, I am still alive, even though I’ve not been very active on this site for some time. I finally gave up on trying to keep up with documenting all things that have been going on, as the story is crazy complicated and I am busier than I have ever been.
Doing […]

How it seems summer does fly! The plums came in, the peaches and the corn all have come in, and the strawberries and tomatoes and blackberries and apples keep on producing. The grapes will be in soon enough, and apples will be getting bigger and sweeter. It’s good to be back on […]