BENVENUTI A TUTTI … Willkommen to a twice monthly po-mo mash-up of opinion & poetry (the Japanese called it 俳文 haibun). We’re calling it “Captain B[arefoot]’s Earthship Log” … Writing from Cloud Acre on this sunny drought winter Western Slope day, the 18th of December, 13025 [2025 Anno Domini], second daughter Sara Mae’s birthday in my Goodtimes ‘ohana … For 40 years I wrote op-ed columns like this for Telluride and other regional newspapers: Up Bear Creek, Pandora’s Box, Looking Out from Lone Cone … CBEL is inspired by Silverton wise woman Dolores LaChapelle (Sacred Land, Sacred Sex, Rapture of the Deep) with nods of appreciation to Herb Caen’s three-dot journalism, Peter Berg’s Planet Drum, Donna Haraway (Staying with the Trouble), Gary Snyder (Riprap, Earth Household, Turtle Island, Practice of the Wild), Dick Ganci’s cherry pits, Shawn Dubin’s stilts, Jack Mueller’s portolanos, Danny Rosen (Lithic Press), Wendy Videlock (The Barefoot Laureate) & Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (Emerging Form podcast) … Pulitzer Prize-winning San Francisco poet George Oppen says what we are up to best in some lines in the poem “From Disaster” from the book The Materials (New Directions, 1962)