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Thoughts on our new city
So it's been 9 months since we moved to Sacto, enough time that some of my thoughts on living here have had time to gestate. Here are some of my impressions of the City, good and bad, in no particular order ( Read more... ) -
On Belief, Medicine, Population, and Ontology
Something I have struggled with for years is how to reconcile the need to do what is right for humanity with the need to do what is right for the earth ( Read more... ) -
A Breath of Fresh Air
My last post, 5 months ago, described the strangeness of our living arrangement. Like being in limbo, unsustainable and yet with no way out ( Read more... ) -
I Don't Believe It!
I grew up in a religious household. To be specific, my parents were members of the Self Realization Fellowship, brainchild of Yogananda, the Hindu yogi who introduced many westerners to concepts of Eastern religion back when that was a new thing for westerners to be into. And I have to say that, as religions go, it was a fairly easy one to swallow ( Read more... ) -
Clay's A-Z Website Rhyme
A is for Amazon. Just buy stuff online ( Read more... ) -
If I Had Acted the Way I Felt.
You know how adults cry, and babies cry? With adults, if it's necessary, they can cry in utter silence. Like in a movie theater. And with babies, who have no sense of tact, crying is a head splitting event comparable in decibles to the shuttle launch ( Read more... ) -
Carmel in Haiku
Raining late at night ( Read more... ) -
Names of our child's future classmates?
Baby names from our (extended) peer group, from within the last couple of years, in no particular order ( Read more... ) -
The Last
The trees the people walk between are tall ( Read more... ) -
dSLRs and Pixel Pitch
Somehow we got on the topic of dSLRs, with the upshot being that we might actually own one of these expensive beasts. And so because it's the kind of thing I love doing, and the kind of thing Maddy hates doing, it was my "job" to figure out which would be the best one to get ( Read more... )