Common Ground: The Shortest Food Chain
Here’s another article on the sustainable foods culture. The tie is to the book by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Looks like another trip to the booksellers for me. Everthing I keep reading about “Omnivore”…
Support Your Local Farmer, Craftsperson, and Shopkeeper
It looks like if there is a common thread running through recent posts it is the idea of buying local. My concern was originally in the way of food. I feel a bit leery of…
The Blog of Henry David Thoreau
The Blog of Henry David Thoreau:Thursday, June 22, 2006Thoreau’s Journal: 22-Jun-1851As I walk the railroad causeway, I notice that the fields and meadows have acquired various tinges as the season advances, the sun gradually using…
‘Organic’ Loses Its Freshness
‘Organic’ Loses Its Freshness: Until recently, organic practices were sneered at by those in academia, in government and in chemical agribusiness — now called ‘conventional agriculture.’ Thanks to a fast-growing demand for organic food, the…
Pandemic
Latest measles case brings total to 14 – The Boston Globe: “June 21, 2006The Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed another case of measles yesterday, bringing the total to 14 since early May. The patient,…
Our Stories, Mythology in the Making
Wandering through the blogs I read regularly today led to another interesting discovery…via Colleen thru her sister Kathy to Christina Baldwin and her book “Storycatcher”. Now it looks like I need to make another trip…
Home and Heart
Reading Fred First is like conversing with myself. He manages to say things in a much more articulate and beautiful way than I probably would. Take the following excerpt:Home and the HeartWhy is there ‘no…
Fragments From Floyd: Curiosity, Wonder and Awe
Fred managed to wake up a bunch of blog readers this morning and the conversation is already going strong…Fragments From Floyd: Curiosity, Wonder and Awe: “Curiosity, Wonder and AweSometimes, when you are haunted by the…
SIMPLY WAIT: BECAUSE THEY BOW TO YOU WHEN THEY SAY GOOD-BYE
SIMPLY WAIT: BECAUSE THEY BOW TO YOU WHEN THEY SAY GOOD-BYE: ” It occurred to me that we don’t bow to each other nearly often enough. Not physically or spiritually. We don’t acknowledge the sacred…
Loose Leaf Notes
Loose Leaf Notes: ““Mining the Gold of a Story,” which comes from this excerpt from the book: In this physical world, we have to mine for treasure. Gold and silver are precious gems are not…
“Success goes to those who tell their story to the marketplace”
I was reading in Ripples this morning where David was discussing a conference on Sustainable Development held in Abingdon, Va. The following quote really jumped of the screen at me…Ripples: post-corporate adventures: Sustainable Economic Development…
Tuseday Muse
It has been a few weeks now since I jumped back into this try at blogging. I don’t think I have quite gotta handle on what I am trying to say yet. I am not…
Ambivalence: Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu
It has long been a theory of mine that the myth of our lives is created in the reflection we see in the eyes of our loved ones and friends. It is through our trying…
Joni Mitchell on the Computer
“Were captive on the carousel of timeWe cant return we can only look behindFrom where we cameAnd go round and round and roundIn the circle game”“Take your time, it won’t be long nowTill you drag…
Eat Local
This months issue of Mother Jones has an article on Polyface Farm and Joel Salatin. His comments on farming and politics really speak to me.No Bar Code: ““We don’t have to beat them,” Joel patiently…
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