This blog is my attempt to look at the bigger picture, to take the long view in the light of the Universe. (Although at times I may examine the details in order to find the universal.)

Recently, I gave a talk entitled "Earth Magic and Indian Physics" at a local Unitarian-Universalist church in celebration of National American Indian Heritage month, using concepts from physics, like the black hole information paradox, and readings from American Indian authors, including an excerpt from Susan Power's The Grassdancer, as a way of talking about expanding our personal views to encompass more people and more of the Earth and its ways. (Hear the audio below.) As always when I give talks, I learned a lot about myself and for myself. One of the things I learned is that my son is right when he says I'm a nerd girl at heart.

I love science as it relates to the Earth and Sky World. This can be uncomfortable for an Indian, since some scientists have been so pigheaded as to trample our beliefs and so narrow-minded as to negate our inclination for the rather long view of history. But science is a great way to question–just not the only way. And it never negates my belief that there is magic in the world. Not magic as in unrepeatable or unobservable, but as in wonderful and awesome. And, yes, so much that is beyond our current powers to explain is real. To want to explain everything is to wish to conquer it. And conquest brings conflict; this much I know is true.

So much of conflict is avoidable. If we truly see into the heart of things, I believe that all conflict is avoidable. The paradox becomes the internalized lesson. I set about to show that Margaret Many Wound's walk on the moon, from Power's novel, is no more speculative than some scientists' attempts to explain the black hole information paradox. We all are capable of dancing out on a limb for the people and experiences we love.

Read the book for yourself, listen to the audio, and let me know what you think.

I will try to leave you a few words and an image at least once or twice a week on this site, as a record of what I am working on and thinking about. Sometimes it may be personal, sometimes political, sometimes as deep-thinking  as I am capable of being.

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