The thrust of business (free market or otherwise) is to make the greatest number of people buy the greatest number of the same things. The business system is also deigned to ensure we keep buying by depriving people of the means to grow their own food (which it seems to me most people are reluctant…
Category: Quotidial
What Does Your World Look Like?
There are around the world hundreds of eruptions every year. We don’t know about them because for the most part they happen under water. If you have never seen the films of these eruptions I would suggest you try to hunt one down because it is a very weird thing to see steam created on…
Language
There is something insistent in our need to communicate. An endless desire to be understood. And languages reflect our needs and desires starting off being quite small and growing as we grow, like flowers opening their petals as the sun rises. Many years ago they started looking closely at philology in Europe and the ways…
New Born
The calves in their fluffy smallness are in the fields this time of year. We had the lambs specially reared for the Easter food market last month. We are actually quite lucky here that the farmers tend to keep the mothers and babies together in the field. It is not the usual way with modern…
Mind Altering Drugs
Since my sister has tried everything in the world (so I am told) and lives in a haze of marijuana, I do wonder why people seek mind altering experiences through chemicals in plants. I do have an understanding that artists have often tried these things, and religious shamans have used them for centuries to great…
Art On Disc
Many years ago I was discussing with a painter the longevity of paintings. It was at the same time I was being introduced to the Book Arts and learning how the Book of Kells was dug out of a bog in Ireland and its illuminations still resound throughout Europe after a thousand years. And we…
Mirrors
They have always been fascinating, haven’t they? I wonder what the first people to have silver backed glass and not bronze, copper and water to look at themselves upon really thought? Maybe a few screams? Must have been interesting to know they could now dress up and paint on their own makeup. I was given…
Lose Yourself
I have heard people say the more you lose yourself the more you find out who you really are. Since it is impossible to actually lose oneself, because whatever process one goes through to do so one is always one, I am guessing what they really mean is disconnect yourself from the life you have…
Life’s Tag Lines
Over at linked-in they seem to regularly want people to come up with an all embracing, pithy line to help them garner clients. I am so glad I don’t have to try this but I share today the funny side of my family. My aunts and uncles like all aunts and uncles, have certain characteristics…
The Left And Right Hand
America, I am told, is in the middle of her census. It is the business of government to know what its citizens need, their demographic, so it can apportion funding to all the myriad things society needs funded. The information, though, can be used to check up on citizens, uncover frauds, discover frauds and generally…