May 29, 2010
I just finished Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front. It’s at least in part an eco-survivalist guide to finding your way in peak oil, climate change, and the forecasted hard times that will come from energy crisis. I don’t agree with it entirely, I have to say that I’m not as doom-and-gloom [...]
May 23, 2010
Subtitle: I really do get comments on this blog, just not on this blog. I heavily use a handful of social media sites: Twitter, Google Buzz, Facebook, Ravelry (knitting community), and Flickr. I value each for different things, and Facebook is my least favorite. Especially since now they’re trying to take over the Internet. Yet, [...]
May 16, 2010
Dave’s dad likes ponds. He put a pond in the backyard of the house where Dave grew up. We got a small man-made pond when we bought our house. It was at the edge of a slate patio in the back yard, ringed with a kind of perplexing boxwood hedge that blocks the view of [...]
May 9, 2010
Things have been tense, and when they’re tense I’m drawn inward, away from the stress and complexity of other people. I feel like every where I turn I am hearing someone talk about writing – friends are turning towards writing books, I’m picking up books published by friends, a quick trip in my car gives [...]
May 2, 2010
I started to wonder what all of that knitting was doing for me. What I was expressing or replacing by knitting.
not particularly objective musings on odds and ends – Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48105