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Dear Friend, Today I’m thinking about my deployment next Thursday. I am playing with how it will feel – back on the road to some forgotten part of Colorado, into the fields which feed America. We are a hungry nation. Besides the corn and soy on which I will tramp, I’ll be a small integral…

Dear friend, I thought about writing you last night, when emotions were high, when I was thinking about reaching out to you and realized that there’s probably no going back, even if you wanted me to. Do you think about me? I realize that when I start thinking much about what I’m missing in my…

Hello Friend, I hope you are doing well. It seems so many of us are feeling overburdened, burned out, or struggling this time of year. Last night I went out for dinner with another friend, and he too is feeling like this is a heavy month. Maybe February will feel lighter – I never really…

Dearest Friend, Today I am thinking about power. The physical property of power – using energy to do work. I think we used the lights a lot last night, and Chloe borrowed an inefficient charger for her phone, and now the batteries are at less than 10 volts (a very stressed-out battery) and the solar…

I have decided to attempt daily to write for 20 minutes (or more) about what’s on my mind. I’m hoping this grows, and others will write their dear friend here, too. Maybe it seems a little pathetic, but I find that when I talk with people without a filter on, they often look at me…

Come on in, we’re glad to have you. Stokequest is a hub for like-minded folk of diverse experience to get together and enjoy lifelong questing after ways to make humanity more resilient and less prone to suffering. Based on the coast of Maine, USA we host gatherings and workshops, create media, and generally create an…