I was in Safeway last Sunday, buying rhubarb. The stems were meaty and a little bit limp, and they were the colour of flesh. One stalk had five little shoots emerging from its end, which had been snipped off, so that it they looked like five fingers on a tiny hand. A tiny hand [...]
I spent last week fretting about the global financial meltdown, and what it really means. I kept thinking about Zimbabwe, and what it must be like to be living there, where the system really has melted down, and people haven’t got any food. For some reason, everywhere I went, I fell into conversations with [...]
That’s the title of a PhD dissertation by Elaine Aaron. Here’s what she says:
Archetypes, as Jung said, have dual aspects. The archetype of forceful big is the counterpart, or opposite, of the archetype of delicate small. Once forceful big enters the scene, there is no more space for delicate small. It gets crushed.
This observation alone [...]
I’m writing this on Tuesday morning. I feel in my bones that Obama will win. I don’t think this would be worth a bean if the GOP wanted this election, but I don’t think they do–I think that’s why they allowed the McCain/Palin campaign to represent them–so I don’t think they will rig the vote. [...]
It’s interesting that the manifestation movement became mainstream around the time that the great rug-pull of globalization began to seriously affect the economic stability of millions of Americans.
The prevailing ideology in any culture is one that serves its reigning economic system, concealing the truth of its power relations and its real aims, veiling them with [...]
Michael Pollan’s new book is called IN DEFENSE OF FOOD. In it, he disparages something he calls “The Western Diet”. This “Western Diet” is made up, not of food, but of “foodlike substances” sold in supermarkets. Michael wants to get us back to eating real food.
Hello Michael? Hello? What is this “Western” nonsense?
Has Europe been [...]
All the parents of teenaged girls I know in California have daughters in crisis. Several are in treatment for drugs, alcohol, mental health and/or eating disorders. One started cutting. Another has a pending felony charge, related to things she did on meth. These are not the daughters of people struggling against appalling conditions in the [...]
An anthropologist friend of mine told me a set of interesting facts last night in a California hot tub.
First of all, if girls and boys live together before the age of about 6, they will tend not to be sexually attracted to each other. Kibbutz children, for example, raised communally, do not tend to marry [...]
I’m sniffing a new scent on the wind in the US these days. It could be my imagination, but it seems to me there is a real change in the air.
- First of all, there’s the financial bail-out, and the widespread disgust at the greed and the arrogance of the people involved. The 400,000 dollar [...]
In another post I wrote about honesty and common respect for other people’s property. I had the impression that I remembered a time when there was a lot more of that, so I did some homework and discovered a STAGGERING FACT: When I was born, in 1962, there were roughly half as many people on [...]
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