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The Seeds They Are A-Changin’

January 10, 2013by Sven 8 Comments

The Matador Travel Network just published my piece about my German ancestral roots in the seed trading business and how it relates to California’s narrowly defeated Proposition 37 which would […]

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politics, soil, stories & poems, travel
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200 — or why I (still) love to blog

November 25, 2012by Sven 24 Comments

That’s the number of posts I’ve written here on this little blog o’ mine. I don’t often do much housekeeping because I’m so focused on the themes I’m writing about, […]

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community, inspiration, stories & poems
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If the elevator didn’t stop…

December 9, 2011by Sven 9 Comments

another new poem to challenge old assumptions… If the elevator didn’t stop you’d go straight to heaven that is assuming heaven is at the top an idea we feed with […]

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soul, stories & poems

Change

December 5, 2011by Sven 6 Comments

Some thoughts on impermanence. I guess some would call it a poem… Change what there is may not be there and what may come has always been what is a […]

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