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I am a passionate food systems and wise land use advocate/activist, a mom, an academic research librarian, and all around community development kind of person.

I am interested in empowerment of women and in any enterprise that seeks to push forward "women and children first" policy with the understanding that to not do so is to do a disservice to one's own family and one's own life, nonetheless a disservice to local and global communities in which we all participate. If women are not aided and encouraged to raise passionate, aware, just, and balance seeking children then the global community will continue in its path of dominance, war, and injustice.

I am dedicated to helping my local farmers and producers have a better/bigger voice in my county because it is the only way to stop greedy people from paving over some of the best dirt in North America. Sprawl and illiteracy are my enemies.

I am passionate about keeping historical and cultural continuity in mind when making decisions - to fail to do so ensures repetition of atrocities instead of sustainable development.

I believe that growth at all cost is a death knell for us all, and I also think that imbuing corporations with the rights of living beings is an example of evil at work in the world.

I believe that democracy is something to be learned and earned not sold or forced.

I was born in the state of Idaho, USA,  and I grew up in Cape Town, SA. I now reside in the state of Washington, USA, and I am on sabbatical in New Zealand. How all that happened is a long story, but it is part of why I have so many fields of interest.

best regards,

~h

Only the free have disposition to be truthful. Only the truthful have the interest to be just. Only the just possess the willpower to be free.

~WHAuden

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

~JLBorges

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If a nation expects to be ignorant - and free - in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

~TJefferson

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I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

~RMueller