Celebrating the Overlooked
I appreciate any effort to rescue the neglected noble: those little things that are good but nobody notices. It could be a person, it could be a garden.
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The Dorothy Parker and Florence King Reincarnate
But she's going on maternity leave
"No Amount of Alcohol is Good for You--That Much is Clear"
The idea that moderate drinking is healthy has been debunked . . . currently
Capitalism and Communism are Flipsides of the Same Coin?
Rod Dreher calls Niall Ferguson's first column for The Free Press a "banger" and he's right.
Ferguson highlights an alarming number of similarities between the last years of the Soviet Union and the United States today. Does it mean the United States is reaching
Rationalized Ideals of Silence Crashing Against the Rock of Reality
Or rather, "Rationalized Ideals AGAINST Silence Crashing . . . ".
Knowledge Through Experience is Still Knowledge
Black Magic and Scientism
Magic has fascinated me since I learned that the high watermark of magic was the Renaissance. The cutting-edge Renaissance thinkers were magicians. Magic and science were intertwined, its practitioners flitting between the two practices (arts) in their attempt to understand and, ultimately, control/manipulate the world, unaware that they
Why Gardening Matters
Hemispheres in the Garden
The left hemisphere plans, incidentally. The right hemisphere flows.
Carol Deppe draws an autobiographical distinction in The Tao of Vegetable Gardening between "Planning Carol" and "Doing Carol." PC lays out elaborate plans that DC later disregards as she gardens. I can relate . . . big-time. Deppe'
The Cell Phone is a Monkey Trap for the Left Hemisphere
And Eight Other Short Observations about the Hemispheres