Welcome to a collection of my writing from a lifetime of fieldwork, sociology, journalism, street reporting, participant-observation and ethnography. These are my stories, my news from the social world---encomiums, adventures and epiphanies, tales of subculture, community, creativity, spirituality, healing, art, music, technology, surfing, ocean advocacy, gardening, metaphysics. A tour dairy through the transformative life-worlds of people, places and things, the sacred and profane.