Is there anything as pleasing to the hands than the feeling of dirt between your fingers? More pleasing to the soul than nurturing some plants? More pleasing to the mind then doing idle chores? More pleasing to the heart than showing it some love?
Over the past six years, there hasn’t been any radio or podcast that has had such an impact on me as WTF with Marc Maron. From the first time I listened I knew it was going to be a long relationship. I take Marc for walks, with headphones in my ears, walks around the park […]Read Post ›
But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction […]Read Post ›
Going to a food festival that doesn’t exist? Say you’re doing something but then do something different? Don’t follow through with a commitment? This article rang true for me for many reasons and it is fascinating in how basic it seems. A concept that we anthropologists use is the “what you say vs. what you […]Read Post ›
The Wind How can you talk about San Francisco without talking about the wind? Chicago is the windy city, yet, I feel, it’s been mis-named, as San Francisco indeed has some of the most extreme wind I’ve experienced. It was Saturday morning and my friend Jen picked me up at the BART station in Oakland. […]Read Post ›
Say hello to my friends.
When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men […]Read Post ›
