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Manzanita
It’s been a longtime since I updated this blog! Over the last almost 2 years now, I’ve transitioned from being a Product Manager / Head of Product for software startups to following in both of my grandfather’s footsteps in agriculture – with the crucial difference that I’m working on sustainable agricultural systems. I knew from…
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Ozymandius
I met a traveler from an antique land,Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand…
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A sun drenched Wednesday
Sun drenched Wednesday afternoonParked in shade and watching my daughter sleepShe is exhausted, tired out from chasing wavesAnd watching the little crabs with their pinchy handsIn the tiny temporary stillness of tide pools And in all my years I have never loved as fiercelyAs I love this tiny utterly fearless personlike any father worth the nameI…
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A Thanksgiving recipe
Start with one fresh-baked rant about the inherently imperialistic origins of the “thanksgiving” holiday. Add a bitter comment about what’s happening right now at Standing Rock under a Democratic president and what that says about how little progress America has made. Season with notes of despair and impotent rage at the recently concluded election (the…