A friend of mine recently came down with a hideous, unexplained rash on his arm. It kept him awake at night, itching and burning. I met him in the local health food store, lurking like a leper by the peaches, with big bags under his eyes.
Our local health food store is also the local community [...]
What could be better than the new Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS); a recent bill that lets you trade in your old, gas-guzzling klunker for a new, more fuel-efficient vehicle?
When I first heard about it, I had to grind my teeth, since I just missed out on the cash bonanza. My 12 year old Honda [...]
British psychologist Donald Winnicott coined the phrase ‘transitional object’, referring to the teddy bear or security blanket that a toddler carries about as a link to the safety of Mummy and Daddy and home. Broadening the concept of the transition, he said that play is a ‘transitional space’, providing a fluid, two way link between [...]
I used to work with an evangelical vegan. He was radically concerned about farm animals. But he couldn’t see past the end of a chicken run in terms of the implications of anything he said.
His first line of argument I called “The Frances Moore Lappe”: we should plough up the pasture land in order to [...]
The latest news is that the execs of the banks that got bailed out have earmarked a large amount of the bailout money to pay themselves end of year bonuses. Now we’re going to bail out GM too, again by forking over millions to the very execs whose miserably bad decisions got GM into this [...]
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. [...]
My last day in England is blustery and autumnal. I hike up the lane behind my sister’s house and follow a Public Footpath sign across stubbly fields. The wind roars in a big ash tree and a flock of about a hundred rooks rise flapping and cawing into the air. I find a fragment of [...]
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