by Ashley Carrithers | Mar 26, 2014 | Ashley Carrithers, Ashley's Adventures in Wilderland, Blogs
Here, at the winter lands, today I get to wake at last dark to an ongoing patter of little laughs at our prolonged drought as RAIN continues to kiss the Earth. The sound on this shake roof was there the night long, and each time I sort of woke it brought a smile to me...
by Ashley Carrithers | Mar 21, 2014 | Ashley Carrithers, Poems
golden girl outshining yon sun traipsing sandwards, trailing cutest pooch and songs sweet with being, beach-bound. she is dream-laden landed on Earth’s shore a warm walking statue blue, blue eyes aswirl above smile’s radiance words wilt here, think...
by Ashley Carrithers | Jan 20, 2014 | Blogs
Having founded a school in the ’70s on a remote mountain ranch in northern California, we sometimes refer to ourselves as old hippies who, in addition to educating, building, gardening, river-tripping, and playing lots of volleyball, became environmental activists...
by Ashley Carrithers | Jan 16, 2014 | Ashley Carrithers, Ashley's Adventures in Wilderland, Blogs
When I first arrived in Patagonia and was suddenly the Patron of vast leagues of land populated with animals that turned the grass into meat and vines that became wine and such, I inherited a posse of gauchos as well. I spoke no Spanish and initially had to rely on...
by Ashley Carrithers | Dec 20, 2013 | Blogs
Scientists across the globe consistently inform us that the pollutions caused by our continual, careless, and insistent consumption are, day by day, destroying the fragile ecosystems that sustain all life on our planet. Ho Hum, who cares? Our governments? Our...