And this also from Recovering the Sacred:
33 And a third of Americans live beyond the saturation point ($30,000 per person), meaning we have more money coming in than does anything for our happiness anymore (again, on average).
Strange statistics from Recovering the Sacred by Jeff Golden
Seventy percent of Americans live above the abundance point ($10,000 per person), meaning we already have all we need financially to maximize our happiness, on average.
Follow the prompt to the menu of our local taqueria… and if it doesn’t work on your device click here.
This recipe is super simple and very tasty. Perfect for meatless Monday. It features a method for cooking brown rice I had not encountered before. Bake it in the oven. Rice was perfect.
Now that’s user friendly!
My latest long form post which is about movie house marquee’s, analog communication and the joys of living local.
Support local businesses!
A local creek filled with spring rains…
Spring is springing!
Home cured gravlax…
An important piece of American history to remember. A very important read for the present day as so much of what Perkens accomplished is threatened… Frances Perkens and The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
A store where you can have your stringed instrument made or repaired by appointment only!
A Florida principal has resigned under pressure from the school board after three parents complained that an art teacher had shown Michelangelo’s statue of the biblical shepherd “David” (1501–1504) to their 11- and 12-year-old sixth-graders. One parent even said the famous artwork was “pornographic.” The art teacher’s lesson was part of the curriculum’s mandatory unit on Renaissance art.
What is the saying? Red sky at morning? And of course we have to drive across three states today. Worried about the higher elevations.
Saffron spice, more dear than gold.
Fiona and Chas warming themselves by the fire. Dog painting on the wall is of our rescue dog Camille who passed years ago. Painting is by my wife.
Approaching Gridlock: Arundhati Roy on Free Speech and Failing Democracy
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute, with its detailed, comprehensive data set that measures the health of democracies, has categorized India as an “electoral autocracy” along with El Salvador, Turkey and Hungary, and predicts that things are likely to get worse. We are talking about 1.4 billion people falling out of democracy and into autocracy. Or worse.
Aurora - 30 Minute Forecast - NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
Apparently this was visible at our latitude last night. We are in lower Hudson Valley.
This Is the Lightest Paint in the World - WIRED
An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler.
Court noun: An extent of open ground partially or completely enclosed by walls or buildings; a courtyard.
In back of my morning coffee shop…
Who knew all those round stones we brought back from the beach would be useful one day? Gravlax press!
Getting my Gravlax on! 36 hours and counting!
Was poking around the Obsidian file structure and realized you can move files from one vault to another should you want to reorganize… game changer for me!
Looking for alternatives—better sights than we see, better sounds than we hear, a better mind than we have—keeps us from realizing that we could stand with pride in the middle of our life and realize it’s a sacred mandala. —Pena Chödrön