On the planet Pandora, electrochemical communication across an underground root system links trees together, through billions of connections, like synapses between neurons in our brains.

God sent us awesome sunny weather after days of rain, so everyone was eager to get outside this Earth Day. About sixty folks met outside right after our regular Common Meal, with full bellies ready to ride around the parking lot (and draw with chalk and talk and...). The kids were really into it, which just made it swell. We had a volunteer bike mechanic, local press sent a photographer and reporter, and we got started painting our rain barrel for the library's rain barrel promotion campaign. All in all a success!

This will be the first time in three years that I do not spend Good Friday protesting at the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, about an hour inland from San Francisco.

34Then the king will say to those at his right hand, “Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 35for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.” 37Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink?