The Prophets
… tiptoeing into the sky like bathers at the polluted beach…
Category Archives: Activism
Inconvenient Truths
Stay Curious… even when (especially when) what you uncover are frightening truths.
Els jardins del Poblenou
As with every travel, I find there are gardens that -look- like gardens, and there are gardens that -are- gardens, no matter how they look on the surface.
strike here
From mundane moments, victories that are larger in fact than in appearance.
The Standing Desk [β] – Day 40
Forty days of rain, forty years in the wilderness, forty days on the mountain; forty years old, forty sons, forty cubits, forty baths, forty days’ fast.
The Standing Desk [α] – Day 14
Two weeks in, I remain happy with the switch to a standing desk, and am considering when to build my “Beta” version.
The Standing Desk [α] – Day 7
My workday has become a workdance!
Human rights in the mist
I watch the world’s movements. It turns with the same steady footstep as always, but the humans aboard become frightened, startle at shadows and . . . make decisions tainted by their imagined or promoted fears.
August 7th, 2011: A Day of Silence
One reason we are leaning over an economic precipice, and our poor human non-heroic legislators are hog-tied and unable to affect change, is because We the People are arguably (and measurably) the most materialistic and consumptive culture the world has yet produced.
Follow the Leader
Life is lighter when it is shared, and all but the most intransigent problems shy away from a circle of friends.
Burning snow
As I stood under the shower’s spray this evening, allowing the warm water to wash away the day’s dust and travel, I found that as the dirt left me, so did peace and security.
Lessons Learned?
A system is only as strong as its weakest link; make a nuclear containment structure (theoretically?) plane-proof and bomb-proof, still the generator sits outside… powered by fission, not fusion, its “steady state” is detonation, not stasis.