ordinary momentum
I was walking my pup through the woods this morning. The sun was rising through the thicket – a breathtaking fiery pumpkin etched with spidery tributaries. I might not have noticed it if I hadn’t looked up and stepped outside my doggie-mama self at that moment.
I was so taken aback that I called out to [...]
awake and dreaming
I am of two minds. Awake and in a dream state. I haven’t had five hours of straight sleep for two weeks. This state is no blissful Maryland. It is a foggy and distracted state like coastal Washington. I’m tired, eating badly and not exercising. I need to shave my legs. I keep forgetting to [...]
small is beautiful
“Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful.”
– E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: Economics [...]
Where Do You Live?
Everything is changing – and fast. Our money, our climate, our connections. I find myself longing for the good old days – bygone days remembered through rose-coloured glasses when everyone could afford to buy a house, when cities valued green spaces and parks over condo developments and when people talked on rotary phones that hung [...]
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