<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[sid sibo]]></title><description><![CDATA[sid sibo]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:21:59 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.sidsibo.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Real news, real smiles]]></title><description><![CDATA[The same warped sense of reality—so many times proven wrong—that leads people to establish hierarchies of humankind also clings tightly to its strange belief that humans are the pinnacle of creation. This week’s good news, accordingly, is celebrated both from the perspective of ecological success and as a major win for human rights in the (not-so-) United States. Many people, both living and ancestral, created and continue to defend laws to protect ecological integrity. Among those are keys...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/real-news-real-smiles</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a07554222114a9aa2a7cb63</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:52:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_6ba38f4e40a14f8fa39f2cfc553f6163~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness Continues ]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite lines from a favorite Indigo Girls song: If you have a care in the world, you have a gift to bring. We can’t always cite a reason for this caring, and why would that matter? To care, to share our gifts, that is living, to LIVE, to be alive to the many interlinked forms and functions of this singular world. In the face of a context that can feel overwhelmingly opposite to this, our insistence on and persistence in a life of caring is not abdication of “more important”...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/kindness-continues</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fe0242ecab901137512892</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:48:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_4e4dff924491408db3c5e051a742405e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_960,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power Up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are you ready to join the YAY-sayers? Subscribe to this newsletter for POSITIVE news about People-and-Planet. We are all in this together and we aren’t gonna listen to the endless yammering about how divided we are. Point in case: western Wyoming, where sits my own little cabin on the Pacific slope of the Rockies. Even from here, in only a click or two beyond an article in the High Country News I discovered today’s YAY, with a sweet connection to my own rural electric co-op and a local civil...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/power-up</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f0d7f5d3f2ae6dd9146ba0</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:04:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_422f15979aad44dd8dae251d0099f54c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_853,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radical]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mycelium photo-- Revolutions happen more frequently than an AI surveillance bot might think. Oh, wait, do they think? But then again, do WE? Or do we just rotate through political-economic systems on a predictable pattern with little change? Remember that Earth rotates, every day, every day. We appreciate sunrise and possibilities--changes, right?--that we might have missed before. Or that have only just become possible, because of other shifting factors. We settle gratefully under a starlit...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/radical</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d93bf275afb0779a6f9213</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:48:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_1b5833b805114eff9150f6f236a15e3b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reconnecting to our Responsibilities ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Indigenous peoples, with long experience, are leading the way now through tyrannies resurfacing around the globe. Keeping their focus on the future, organizations in Canada, Australia and Alaska prioritize regenerative ways of being rather than trying to face down every new challenge that arises. For the planet, and for people, this visionary approach to today's necessary work is a welcome way forward. Elder Copper Joe Jack, a Ta'an Kwäch'än Council  land management planner from the Yukon,...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/reconnecting-to-our-responsibilities</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696aaf98d896cb8b6939e1ba</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:09:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_bb844cda0bb8403c856e781e82c64586~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_800,h_865,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["discovering" restraint]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the year spins ‘round, lists of recent happenings and discoveries—personal and global—proliferate, while each new year rises in front of us with its own uncertainties, its many unknowns. Humans probably have experienced, over time, an evolutionary advantage through our attraction to what seems new, even as those among us who hang tight with what we know also provide useful grounding. Looking over positive news from the past 12 months, a Mongabay article  about newly described biodiversity...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/discovering-restraint</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69554514fbc9403dda7330c6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:30:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_71a57dff636443a1ba68f24261e50133~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_700,h_467,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earthly Brilliance]]></title><description><![CDATA[When my attention returned to the Acoustic Burro, curiosity and serendipity sent me stories of courageous role models creating the healthy home we all need. The Global Landscapes Forum introduced me to Célia Xakriabá, now the first indigenous Federal Deputy in Brazilian Congress from the state of Minas Gerais. Since 2023, she’s chaired a parliamentary commission defending Indigenous people’s rights and the planet from which she sees no possible disconnection. “We are the environment.” She...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/earthly-brilliance</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6946c70d278ff96e54e8c932</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:02:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_4a16b6021be147bca1cac39a7a30ec97~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_736,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[going Deeper]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maybe many governments appear still convinced of the strange and harmful fallacy of human superiority, but that isn't the only story to be found in these tumultuous times. A 2023 treaty adopted by U.N. member states, called Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, shows a path toward the beyond . We can recognize our planet as the inextricably interconnected, nested, grand experiment we know as Life, something far beyond human conceptions of jurisdiction. The treaty...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/going-deeper</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6930756a92a1fcb4b0466634</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:40:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_751fda5015014de6b6b220b02fa8d212~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_675,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pen is Mighty]]></title><description><![CDATA[Books for Winter Reading Storytelling has been a part of human social evolution as long as we've had words, and with the magic of written languages we then spread our ability to share stories well beyond what we might hear around the campfire in our own communities. Opportunities for bringing my favorite writing and authors to people who might not have encountered them yet are always exciting to me, and Writing Heights Writers Association is offering an online class, Beyond Human , this...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/the-pen-is-mighty</link><guid isPermaLink="false">691c7dbf7ab4cbbab13b97c8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:02:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_130471b360d64e089eae9cc0fb515373~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guesting on Masters Review]]></title><description><![CDATA[so many hounds, so little time This one's a little longer than my usual Acoustic Burro; a friend and fellow novelist who works with The Masters Review asked for a piece to include in their "Writers on Not Writing" series. Bonus: same link also gets you words from Emily Mathis. Writers on Not Writing]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/guesting-on-masters-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">691359ab3e3a6594de7238e5</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:03:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_7a1ca55b98a94caf98879a6f1b8790b0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_640,h_603,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Circle]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fall breeze lifts colored leaves from tall maples, birch, beech and oak trees as an autumn drizzle softens the piles already on the ground, where a friend’s two-year-old dog pounces and rolls with joy. Turtle Island spans all of North America, including my original home ground here along the Kennebec River and the little farm in a high Rocky Mountain valley that has been home now for decades. So much joy in landscapes all across this continent, a place so many people from around the world...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/welcome-to-the-circle</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68ed641a3c20e096ccd14c17</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:48:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_e8eb01b386534dcd832def07e580824f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_866,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism, meet Pragmatism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Category Five book cover What a weekend at Jackson Hole Book Festival’s Conversation for the Community .  For one, check out featured...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/idealism-meet-pragmatism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68dac569149db7a1645ea1c2</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:45:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_f10ec63218954d44b5a04935ddad37bf~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_750,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superpower]]></title><description><![CDATA[Choosing where we put our attention is an often overlooked superpower. On yesterday's equinox, earth balanced daylight and starlight....]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/superpower</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68d209f5ff6f8e8dc0cba2e0</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:32:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_3dc026304cea4a05ac071e2e28d76585~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_942,h_535,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Burro Break]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Acoustic Burro will be on an extended break to focus on the current novel-length project, but we couldn't just leave without...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/a-burro-break</link><guid isPermaLink="false">689b8184d81f1e4318a86b96</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:25:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_b742ce9efd2247cd9232ecfacdbd2a06~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rock, Paper, Scissors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Having camped among the coyotes, pronghorns &#38; nighthawks, i wandered through the remote restoration work site before anyone else arrived....]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/rock-paper-scissors</link><guid isPermaLink="false">688fc1e1f741774de101da94</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:18:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_15ddecaca7924ce68ee43b79ff13142e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_823,h_617,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanctuary Sounds ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ocarina “vessel flute”, variously made from clay or animal horn, is found around the globe and from earliest human cultures. Second...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/sanctuary-sounds</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68867d3d3f524736c9df9758</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:31:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z5C_VH2Ckg" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bear]]></title><description><![CDATA[While traveling—in unfamiliar surroundings, assistance less readily available—attentiveness climbs the scale. So much to note! A cactus...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/the-bear</link><guid isPermaLink="false">687bf7183b808c020d5474c8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 21:05:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_76cfabae0a714f16ac5c80a6dc263bae~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Can Do It]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hey, You! Koalas evolved alongside eucalyptus forests, able to digest the usually-toxic leaves with assistance from symbiotic bacterial...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/we-can-do-it</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68659b48ba7ee5785a8217ba</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:03:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_025e0ae69a3d41c5aa8a9ca3e67c8ccf~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_292,h_392,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adding an Ethical Perspective]]></title><description><![CDATA[One person’s attempted solution to the plummeting numbers of rhino across Africa, recognizing that rhino horn can be regularly harvested,...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/adding-an-ethical-perspective</link><guid isPermaLink="false">685e088a8f19af55f284491d</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 03:18:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_209bebbf324047e0ba6664f586ba33d0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_667,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independent Publishing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Book publishing is changing--as it always has, since people first began putting stories into pictographs and hieroglyphic renderings. As...]]></description><link>https://www.sidsibo.com/post/independent-publishing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68546bca01c622a34dc1fd2b</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:46:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/250913_473b25a5f93d4d4394723dd3e5ac73a7~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_913,h_913,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>sibodonkey</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>