When I was interviewing Napa therapist and water activist Charlie Toledo, Executive Director of the Suscol Intertribal Counsel, this week, we had a conversation not directly related to the drought and water that I found particularly healing. She told me that in pantheistic times, people had more fun.
"When I speak to elementary school kids, I always ask them, 'How do you think the California people used to pick their chief?' And most little kids will say, Oh, the meanest one, or the toughest war
