Politics

Before the lawyers and treaties and the Court of International Trade, Manhattan and the surrounding area had a very different set of diplomatic rituals. For centuries before the arrival of Europeans, the Lenape and surrounding indigenous groups used wampum to strengthen ties between groups. Wampum is mostly made from the

I spent about 10 years thinking about the unconscious mind learning to recognize and influence emotions and complex responses happening inside me and in the people around me. After some lost years and a hard fall I stopped thinking as much about how to influence things and began looking more

Native American groups call it Wetiko, the rapacious insatiable ghoul that long ago buried itself in the human heart.

What is a guide? A guide leads people through territory. Physical. Intellectual. Emotional. Spiritual. A guide is a 2nd grade teacher, a harbor pilot, a backcountry guide, a museum docent, a friend showing you around their city, a math tutor, a mom showing her kid how to wash the dishes,

This past afternoon I gave a tour to a cool family from Long Beach. I was waiting for them outside Di Palo's when two 60ish year old women in expensive clothes walked by and started talking about Di Palo's. I encouraged them to go inside, and