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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Pickling watermelon radish and Persian cucumbers today. I get liberal about what spices I use, then vary vinegar, salt and sugar to dial in what I prefer and I hope our friends will enjoy. Fenugreek, cardamom, garlic, pomegranate blossom, pink peppercorn and mustard seeds went into these.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Mamdani shares a patriotism we all can happily celebrate. "And yet today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted—but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum." www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxR...

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Mayor Mamdani Delivers Address Marking America’s 250th Birthday

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"We do not live inside this web; we are expressions of it. My encounter left me not just with this insight, but with the feeling. I felt safe. I felt held. What the comfort class tries to attain through accumulation and control was already there the moment I stopped standing apart."

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The increased connectivity of the modern era has further entrenched this system, imposing economic and cultural uniformity, consolidating the power of dominant groups, and making transformative change almost unthinkable @jeremylent.bsky.social #ecocivilization jeremylent.substack.com/p/reweaving-...

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Reweaving Society’s Fabric: How Civilizational Transformation Might Happen

History offers a grim account of how structural change occurs. But concealed within that bleakness is a window of possibility that opens just when things fall apart.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"When it comes to single-payer healthcare, Steyer is also committed to making California a model for the rest of the nation." robertreich.substack.com/p/tom-steyer...

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Tom Steyer for Governor of California

Here's Why

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Please filmmakers, be careful and delicate and wise with this man's reputation, legacy and story. Don't make him a caricature, but a deeply nuanced, imperfect person in love with the entire world, because I believe that's his offering, full carpe diem but also deep empathy. youtu.be/JHVHtiotgMs?...

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TONY Official Trailer (2026)

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

We have had zero troll sightings today here in The Misty Mountains.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

How might a system operate that rewards everyone in both explicit and implicit ways for restoring fisheries, kelp forests, grasslands, jungles and other ecologies? substack.com/@ramanfrey/n...

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"How would an economy that drives wealth to the middle operate, rather than using regulation, punitive justice and progressive taxation after the fact to try to curtail bad behaviors?" open.substack.com/pub/ramanfre...

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A Call for Resourced Redesign

Earth Day, 2026

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"What if the problem is not that there's something wrong with our heads, but with the systems in which we live? What if the very act of framing distress as disease is part of how these systems sustain themselves? bennetzelner.com/essays/what-...

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What If It's Not a Mental Health Crisis? — Bennet Zelner

We are spending more on psychiatric medication than ever before, and we are getting sicker.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We've got your t-shirts for your kids, just in today. Jordan Colton and Dace James are in on our Fertile Mountain jokes about Camp Earnest. Many moments and memories these last few days when they absolutely thrilled and delighted our son.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We call these "family walks," almost a mile out and back to Karin's Cairn, at the path that leads down to our biggest waterfalls.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

After a run, workout and breakfast at Chug's we made our only visit to Bill Baggs beach on Key Biscayne.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Good People, After a long time in development, our gorgeous new GP Dinners website is live! www.gpdinners.com/private-dini... Please have a look and if you feel inspired, repost it yourself with your own reflections.

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Private Dining Events in the SF Bay Area

We design turnkey San Francisco Bay Area private dining farm-to-table events including a beautiful venue, speaker, & emcee.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Karin's keen eye spotted these MAMMOTH oyster mushrooms sprouting from one of the dead alders in our creek, so I headed down and harvested them. Pasta tonight!

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"This metaphor offers a chillingly accurate diagnosis of the dominant system that came to engulf the world. At its heart lies a mode of seeing that objectifies humans and nonhumans alike." jeremylent.substack.com/p/our-civili...

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Our Civilization's Disease Has a Name: Windigo

Indigenous wisdom offers a diagnosis of what ails our world — and understanding it is the first step toward a cure.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Most of America for quite some time may have noticed a faint sucking sound everywhere but especially in small towns and rural areas.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Ran to the end of our trail, about 1.2 miles at about a 10 minute per mile pace, then back again.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We ended up at Trick Dog where I encountered a delicious and intimidating head of cauliflower.

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Civil Eats @civileats.com · 07/03/2026

“I wouldn’t be a chef without my community. My community has played a huge role in what I do and what I advocate for.” Read our conversation with Kickapoo chef Crystal Wahpepah, where she discusses her first cookbook, “A Feather and a Fork.". ⬇️

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Kickapoo Chef Crystal Wahpepah Showcases Oakland’s Native American Side

In her new book, the Kickapoo chef and self-proclaimed ‘Indigenous food warrior’ presents the healing properties of intertribal cuisine.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Okay, let's hit pause now on berry and vegetable starts. I've made a lot of work for myself. If you're planning to visit Camp Earnest and want to chip in with some garden help and planting berries, flowers and fruit trees around campus, let me know.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion. That's roughly $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. People do not want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

When when my daughter was born and I first became a father, my friends gave me the nickname "Papa Smurf." Well our bathhouse at Camp Earnest is going full Smurf, deep blue.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The old laptop and the new one. The old carried about 20 years of sticker memories. I’ve been saving new stickers for a few years now for this new one. Present self and memory self. How do you relate to the selves you’ve been?

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

There can be no wisdom without restraint. When will we decide that we have enough and settle into deep satisfaction and sympathetic joy. Thank you Gaya Herrington. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Will the End of Economic Growth Come by Design — or Disaster? | Gaya Herrington | TED

YouTube video by TED

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

From STANDING AT THE EDGE: Power, for example, can blunt our capacity for empathy, as if our brain had sustained serious damage. An article in the July/August, 2017 issue of The Atlantic summarized it this way: “The historian Henry Adams was being metaphorical, not medical, when he described

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

We refer to each other essentially as an "appetite with a wallet." Nate Hagens is attempting to wake us from the dream of infinitely accelerating consumption, which is also inevitable collapse. Will wisdom calibrate us towards restraint and care in time? www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOmG...

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The Consumption Pyramid | Frankly 123

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Sometimes we need to step back and just make sure we're still awake to the world as it is. Not fear, not fantasy, just meeting life in the moment.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Good People, Chef Eric Minnich has sent us his menu for our 194th GP Dinner, in San Francisco on February 24th. A few spots are still available using the link in the comments. OUR MENU: TO START Chinese Eggplant and Sichuan Peppercorn Caponata in Purple Endive

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This wonderful book has a LOT of words. I couldn't imagine my son sitting still all the way through, almost 20 minutes. But I got to sit in the massage chair while he sat in my lap and I read him the whole book. Even better? We listened to Duke on the massage chair speakers while we read.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

But the rules of our economies guarantee intense wealth concentration. They operationalize "greed is good" and then attempt to claw back cash after the fact. Imagine instead that the operation of the economy itself drove wealth to the middle and prioritized healthy ecologies over profit motive.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The perfect day for a patriotic protest against tyranny in the center of Sonora, and a big exciting win for the San Francisco 49ers!

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Good People, Our second community dinner of 2026 is now live. Please join us on February 24th in SF for an evening with Context and a conversation about how we might operate as an integral part of the more than human world. www.eventbrite.com/e/1980029105...

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GP Dinner #194 | Context on Animism

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"We all have our own stories of attentional woe. Suffice it to say that, like many people, I’ve been on what seems a years-long quest to establish a greater degree of mental sovereignty." www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

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Can You Reclaim Your Mind?

To feel mentally alive, you have to do more than defeat distraction.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Devastating. The accelerating erosion of genuine knowledge and critical reflection. We live in a crisis of the epistemic commons. Fewer and fewer people are able to grasp what is true or real.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Alison Bing has more talents than I can count. One of these is bartending. This cocktail contribution is "The Journalist," but here amended to "The Journalist on Assignment in Tuolumne County." www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/re...

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Reduced myself to 204 lbs. and feeling decidedly...lighter.

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Raman Frey @ramanfrey.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Hard to embrace the label, but I think I'm a revolutionary. And this is the revolution our moment requires. Thank you for this gift to the world John Fullerton and to the luminaries who are part of our larger coherence around a civilization that regenerates and restores the web of life.