January 2012
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“Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that...”
– E. F. Schumacher
(August 16th, 1911 — Sept 4th, 1977)
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“Because the future is more uncertain than ever, these perilous times are also...”
– Scott Kurashige
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“You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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“One Star Fell and Another
One star fell and another as we walked.
Lifting his...”
– Conrad Aiken, 1935
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“The Prophet Muhammad said,
“There is no better companion
on this way...”
– A Basket of Fresh Bread, by Sufi
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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language./ And next...”
– T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”
“Day breaks: the whole of yesterday went falling
among fingers of light and eyes...”
– XVIII, from: ‘Cien sonetos de amor’ by Pablo Neruda
December 2011
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November 2011
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“However, the reintegration of production and consumption in the popular mass...”
– “Taming Nature, Taming Workers,” Gouveia & Juska, 2002
October 2011
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Singaporean Hawker Centers: Past, Present, Future... →
She beat me to it!! This was going to be my post-PhD research project… gonna have to go back to Cambodes instead….
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September 2011
5 posts
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WatchGenius isn’t who we are but a power that comes to visit, not always to stay…
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“Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely...”
– D. H. Lawrence
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“‘Consumer sovereignty’ and the ‘Colonized mind’ are...”
– Harriet Friedman, Food Politics: New Dangers, New Perspectives, p. 28 & 32
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“To understand the mix of acceptance and resistance in each time, place, and...”
– Harriet Friedman, Food Politics, 1995, p. 26
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“A vision without a task is a dream.
A task without a vision is drudgery.
A...”
August 2011
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“Maybe that’s what makes humans so endearing, that our souls are so...”
– Brad Kessler, Goat Song
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listening to "Brett Dennen San Francisco" →
I’m gonna rent me an old Victorian / Down in the Lower Haight / I’m gonna find me an old accordion / Play for the tourists on the golden gate
July 2011
8 posts
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listening to "Joni Mitchell - California" →
California I’m coming home / oh will you take me as I am / Strung out on another man / California I’m coming home
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A limerick on the eve of my first anniversary in...
Well Detroit, now I’ve known you a year, through highs, lots of laughs, and some tears. Your dysfunctions aside, I’m still starry-eyed, There’s no better people than here.
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Detroit-transplant nostalgia
Captures the feeling I had in SF so perfectly.
“Nothing seems to have changed here. He has spent the last five years in a city that disappears more each week, but back here almost everything’s the same. The same Mexican guys are working the deli at the Arguello Super. The old man who used to live above him always dressed all in black except for his Pokeman backpack gets on the bus,...
June 2011
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Fire Escape Farms →
so adorable…
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Locavore Mom-and-pop vs. big-box stores in the... →
Unfortunately, we will get what we measure. The $400 million that the Obama administration has set aside to create greater food access in these so-called food deserts will likely go to attracting full-service grocery franchises that heap upon our children megatons of empty calories like those in high-fructose corn syrup and corn oil — yes, the very products that emerge from Secretary...
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“Of many other things is salad an allegory. I foresee that it will be necessary...”
– GK Chesterton
http://distributistreview.com/mag/2011/05/the-seriousness-of-salad/
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May 2011
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April 2011
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Changing Roles in the Local Food Economy
“The DIY craze has shacked up with the local food movement to produce some inspiring examples of entrepreneurialism: Mason jar magic made by suburban fruit salvagers powered by pedals; workshops on wild-crafting, axe-making, rooftop bees and city-living chickens; lecture series that focus on the how-to rather than just why, when and where; and more.
But we can’t just take pictures of these...
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Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% →
“Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1 percent, perhaps the greatest is this: the erosion of our sense of identity, in which fair play, equality of opportunity, and a sense of community are so important. America has long prided itself on being a fair society, where everyone has an equal chance of getting ahead, but the statistics suggest otherwise: the chances of a poor...
March 2011
7 posts
Local Manufacturing →
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Friendship IXX by Khalil Gibran
And a youth said, “Speak to us of Friendship.”
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the “nay” in your own mind, nor do you withhold the...
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other...