Thank you.
(Our paths don't cross much anymore)
I've been busy. I've written another book. Although I don't take you for a religious person, I think you would find its hypothesis absolutely fascinating from an anthropological/ecological/social/military/political/historical perspective. I think you would especially appreciate the nearly 800 pages of photographic evidence documenting how "environmental preservation" threatens both wildland habitat and the very existence of nations.
I have also recently decoded a completely new understanding of Genesis 1-8 from the Hebrew. Frankly, a lot of people are going to be absolutely in shock. Chapter 1 is not a creation story at all, but instead, teaches a pattern to the reader by which to understand the teaching about the rest of the antediluvian period.
Genesis 4 in particular is in reality a 'nomad v. settler' story that shows how the that struggle shaped the origins of agro-urban civilization. It is no mere, "don't kill your brother" story, but is instead a very deep multiple path analysis of how agro-urban culture dominates nomadic peoples to their own detriment. I suspect its origins are Babylonian, but it was adapted by the pharaohs to describe their rift with their pastoral origins at about 6,000 BC. My suspicion is that the desertification of the Saharan savanna at about that time commenced because of that cultural rift.
We are also gaining significant recognition for our restoration work here at the Wildergarten for having managed to produce the purest example of a native plant landscape to be found on the Central Coast of California. The key has been removal of small annual exotics that were suppressing the germination of what little remained of the native plant seed bank. We are even starting to see the re-emergence of what appears to be evidence of aboriginal agriculture.