A couple of cardoon plants for my vegetable garden!
From this morning’s walk…
Having read half the Justice Department’s indictment of 45, what astonishes me more than anything is how he hasn’t been caught up by his stupidity before now?
Had the desire to understand nuclear family vs extended family…
The term nuclear family was popularized in the 20th century. In the United States, it became the most common form of family structure in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Since that time, the number of North American nuclear families is gradually decreasing, while the number of alternative family formations has increased; this phenomenon is generally opposed by members of such philosophies as social conservatism or familialism, which consider the nuclear family structure important.
What’s for breakfast… Tuscan inspired spaghetti frittata, made with quinoa spaghetti, bok choy and cheddar cheese.
In other words, Jack Smith went big. This is not a trivial case and these are not trivial charges.
…and then there’s news that the case has been assigned to Judge Canon… hmmm…
https://open.substack.com/pub/morningshots/p/indicted-again?r=3lmw0&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
In the creative signage department…
From yesterday and today…
So, we are having an air quality event due to wildfires in Canada. This is what the view down the street in front of our house looked like this AM…
And this is what it looks like this afternoon…
When it is said that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” the “greater” means “hierarchy.” It doesn’t mean fascist domination; it means a higher (or deeper) commonality that joins isolated strands into an actual web, that joins molecules into a cell, or cells into an organism.
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition by Ken Wilber
From this morning’s walk…
A new accordion book, Everyday Mandala…
Reading: Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici 📚
Just as the Enclosure expropriated the peasantry from the communal land, so the witch-hunt expropriated women from their bodies, which were thus “liberated” from any impediment preventing them to function as machines for the production of labor.
My niece Shaina and their wife Bettina at the James Beard Awards last night. They were a finalist for best chef in NY. They didn’t win but just being there is an amazing accomplishment!
From this morning’s walk…
Young man wearing a sweatshirt that says…
Let it happen, the world is yours.
Not sure this isn’t the problem with most of humanity. We act as if the world belongs to us. We are of the world. We can’t possess it. But we can do a lot of damage thinking we can.
Food porn… broiled bluefish in a tomato, olive and caper compotez
Sautéed bok choy with ginger and crushed red pepper.
Reading: Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici 📚
Magic was also an obstacle to the rationalization of the work process, and a threat to the establishment of the principle of individual responsibility.
Perhaps one of the most important connotations of magic is that the world is animated, interconnected. Capitalism sought to break apart this animated world both to exploit it and to disconnect people from it so as to make them more reliable (exploitable) workers.
From this morning’s walk…
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) - IMDb… a really lovely tale in a Cinderella sort of way. Nicely done.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) - IMDb… a really lovely tale in a Cinderella sort of way. Nicely done.
I find some of my music through Pitchfork. Generally speaking, Rap/Hip-Hop isn’t my beat so I don’t listen to a new Rap album unless it has a really high rating. 8.9 on this one. I like it…
Blessing offered on the occasion of my nephew’s high school graduation:
Traveler, your footprints
are the only road, nothing else.
Traveler, there is no road;
you make your own path as you walk.
As you walk, you make your own road,
and when you look back
you see the path
you will never travel again.
Traveler, there is no road;
only a ship’s wake on the sea.
May the road you make be long, beautiful and full of joy. There will, no doubt, be challenges and disappointments along the way, but stay true to your road and persist. And don’ t forget to enjoy the journey as you go.
From this morning’s walk…
Last night I read from my What Intelligent Life Is Made Of blog series at an open mic event. I mentioned Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit monk who wrote The Phenomenon of Man. Afterwards, a woman told me her grandfather had worked with him on Peking Man… an unexpected degrees of separation moment!