feverish…

The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

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the gist of it…

My wife is in the sewage treatment profession. She has become somewhat famous for giving speeches at conventions of Engineers and Professionals in the industry which are considered shocking and radical, but entertaining, so they keep asking her back. The gist of her talks comes down to one simple point. It can be summarized as, “There is no away.” As in it is delusional thinking to assume that something undesirable can be thrown away, or something toxic can be taken away, or something unwanted can be removed. Everything remains here on earth and just gets moved around.

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winter’s watch…

The profound solitude of a winter spent alone on an island caring for an empty hotel….

aeon

made in china…

The Sun rises in the East and sets in the West. For more battery operated lanterns that the West buys to try to scare away the darkness that is approaching it in this present civilizational decline, all of them will be “made in China”.

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