Among the Stones

Andando pola terra, descubrín paisaxes coma bosques, densos de humidade, desertos dourados, sen fin, e montes e vales ondulantes.

On the three versions of my about page, I’m running an experiment with dithering images using Bayer 8×8.

From Wikipedia’s personalized Year in Review for me: You spent 22,629 minutes reading 12,427 articles in 2025.

The two-week heat wave brought extreme fire risk to Galicia and now Ourense province is on fire. 10% of it, 727 square kilometers, has already burned.

Alqo’s ola de calor ritual.

Short trip to A Coruña to escape routine, walk aimlessly, and contemplate deeply.

While I’ve really enjoyed the human, social aspect of my job, talking with podcasters all day, the web development itch returned a few weeks ago.

“…é o que non se fala”.

Israel asasina, a Xunta patrocina Israel murders, the Xunta sponsors No sur de Lugo e noutros lugares de Galicia, seguimos manifestando contra o xenocidio e apartheid israelí e apoiando a liberación de Palestina.

Seeing the storks return brings me a quiet joy.

With my goal of prefiguring some changes in this new year of 2025, a few weeks ago I removed Instagram from my phone.

This Californian still struggles with winter.

Grant me surrender to embrace what You have woven, The strength to stir the waters where my hands may flow, And the vision to see through the veils of what is mine to sow.

Within and without.

Thank you, Elon, for all the chaos in your Twitter acquisition; I deactivated my (X?)

Years ago while in Latin America, I uploaded a few iPhone photos to Unsplash.

Here’s to recognizing the changes and cycles in everything, to re-aligning with our differentiated authentic selves, and rediscovering my absolute lust for life.

Mi tío falleció inesperadamente anoche.

After four days of walking the Camino de Santiago, four days of enjoying being an awestruck pilgrim/tourist in Santiago de Compostela, and two days of traversing Galicia in train and van to get Alqo back from the residencia canina, I’m finally back home in

It’s been quite the year.

Local artist Jesús Benavides carved this self-representation of what living with MS feels like.

We drove Holly down to Madrid a couple of weeks ago.

The Uninhabitable Earth author David Wallace-Wells interviewed ecologist and author Dave Goulson last month for his new book Silent Earth in New York Magazine.

I spent the weekend in O Grove and finally walked around the north shore of the peninsula.

Galician Nationalist Bloc leader and national spokesperson Ana Pontón re-affirmed that her party is the only alternative to the People’s Party austerity and the centralism of the Spanish state apparatus in Madrid in La Voz de Galicia today: The goal of po…

Although it’s not a recent photo, summer for me really begins when I catch a glimpse of the coast heading down the highway towards praia A Lanzada.

I started to get a little wordy about some great news over here, then realized I could sum it up with a few sentences in the /now page.

In late 2012 I was preparing to leave Sierra Leone.

Patricia gets a lot of ideas for cool permaculture projects from El Guardian de la Tierra, a YouTube channel created by Lander, a resident of Mallorca and self-professed adicto al permacultura.

It doesn’t look like it now, but this puppy is a terremoto around the village.

Much of our homestead progress is punctuated by half victories.

B’Tselem executive director Hagai El-Ad on Democracy Now and in The Washington Post: It’s not proportional.

Source: Mar de Lumes Comité Galego de Solidariedade Internacionalista This year will be the year that the world finally wakes up to the absolute reality of Israeli apartheid.

Source: Real Academia Galega and Xulio Gil Happy Día das Letras Galegas!

I never thought I’d be as interested in Madrid politics as I have been for the last month.

I’m sitting in two shipping containers converted into a small 30 square meter house.

I would love to sit down and write a post about leaving Allariz as well as share news about our progress here, but there’s tons to do and I always have to push back writing.

La Región journalist Paula Palomanes wrote about my partner and yours truly last week: Lingüísta y profesora de inglés reconvertida a emprendedora y artesana -ha creado una firma que se llama Macramano- pero, sobre todo, trotamundos ambos, el viaje de Jim…

I’ve been internet absent for a while but everything is good over here, all told.

I have no sage advice on dealing with what comes tonight and the days ahead.

The change in weather has been a bit sudden.