James Baldwin’s words from a half century ago are just as vital to our fostering a deep kind of resilience today.

Cousin Gary Nabhan and I are having an enriching, educational, and all-around incredible time here on the U.S.-Mexico border. In…

Gary: Okay, okay, I know you are both sensitive about what has happened between you, but let us see if…

What if getting our relationship right with the Earth and all its creatures is not just some scenic backdrop to…

forty days of fearing the worst could be happening worlds falling apart hospitals filling their beds loved ones barely breathing…

Gary: Do you know what really touched me today Kristy, while you were talking to the mothers from Guatemala and…

Stay tuned the next two weeks at my cousin, Dr. Kristy Nabhan-Warren of the University of Iowa joins me on…

in the darkest of times where I go, is to a place somehow hidden in the midst of pain a place where microbursts of light breaks through to reach us a crack of light like the very one you may have seen on stormy days right at dusk when darkness tried enveloping entire skies but failed fails because the sun sent out a calla grace note so bright it cut across the horizon right into our hearts

An overwhelming majority of Americans from all political parties want to see the entire range of minors in the so-called…

Gary: It seems that we’re beginning to hear some recurrent themes from our friends that live closest to the border….

When Kristy Nabhan-Warren & I set off today (celebrating her birthday along the way), we will be traveling at least…

Gary: Tell me, cousin Kristy, what questions are going through your head right now. Kristy: Thanks for asking this, Gary….

Kristy: Well, cousin, we are finally out along the border… So what do you see as our task, or tarea, for this trip?

Gary: It seems to me that the U.S./Mexico has become more politicized that at any point in its 170-year history. So perhaps our task is not to further politicize the already volatile and politically contested conditions here. Instead, we are hoping to rehumanize, rather than dehumanize the many who have been caught in the crossfire here.

Kristy: From Nogales to El Paso today, we’ve already accompanied individuals with many different takes on the border crisis, on immigration policies, and human needs, haven’t we?

In my dreams and nightmares, I keep coming back to those eight intense days in five states along the border…

Dear Jere Gettle and Friends at Baker Creek Seeds, Have you gone nuts or just gotten greedy? THERE IS NO…

Dirt: So you occasionally write about us? Gary: Well yes, on occasion. Why? Dirt: What do you think entitles you…