This morning I laid in bed listening to passersby walking or biking down our street commenting on our garden. A few minutes later I was walking through the garden assessing the impact of the overnight rains. I pulled a few weeds to feed to the livestock and ended up chatting for a while with the custodian… Continue reading Of Gardens and Walled Communities
The only thing I would add to what Mike writes is the importance of recognizing that ALL of our technologies are a relationship of the technical with the social/political/economic/cultural. Ideologies, economics, and even epistemologies are embedded within the technologies and have subsequent influence on our trajectory as a society, an effect that can only be… Continue reading Facebook Does Mind Control
I’ve had a phrase running through my mind recently about how there isn’t wealth without commonwealth. But for the life of me I couldn’t place where I had come across that phrase. Finally, this morning I found a reference to a sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. titled “The man who was a fool.” Sure… Continue reading Wealth requires commonwealth
I received word from our credit union today that soon we’ll be able to electronically deposit our checks from a smartphone or scanner. I had in my pocket a check that has been awaiting deposit for a week and thought how convenient. But the feature isn’t enabled yet so I walked to the bank during… Continue reading My “Inconvenient” Walk
Recently I posted about urban farming as civic duty. Today in my email one of the aggregator lists I subscribe to sent me a link to this article about Neighborhood Gardening in Mother Earth News. This is a great example of how reconnecting with the earth and our food system can also be an act of… Continue reading Neighborhood Gardening
