homesteading

even though I’ve read Steinbeck, the idyllic life-lived-on-land is still a carrion clarion call.
Recently sprung up is this harvest moon video snes game. addictive in its repetitive fulfillment, but oh what 2-d purpose it pretends, its progress more available than real life, and requiring less patience. By most accounts, the game should not be very [...]

in the big economy, what does our comfort cost in the lives of others?

“we need change” he whispered, looking suspiciously around

“At the district’s vote-counting center in Murombedzi, electoral presiding officer George Bandure claimed that election officers faced a shortage of paper and were therefore unable to post results. Yet this is one of the more prosperous rural areas of Zimbabwe thanks to Mugabe’s patronage.”

new (slightly dated) photograhy

i suggest everyone visit my flickr site (the link is on the right side of this page) for new photos from christmas time and the family vacation in bradenton.
beauty and cuteness galore! 

screens

hypothesis:
what if all of the time spent on the enabling and participating of screen-watching (TVshows, vidGames, NETbrowsing, etc.) was spent on actively positive pursuits: growing food, cleaning the neighborhood, friendly relationships, exercise, peace, learning, teaching, building, etc.
The average person watches 4.5 hours of television per day. That is about 70 days out of 365 spent [...]