Worth your time: “The Abandoned Americans” by Peter Savodnik.

A few folks have been talking about Dougald Hine’s book here recently so I looked back to see what I had posted while reading it. Of continuing interest:

1. A timely bit about voting
2. Our necromantic power

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I don’t know what mailing list I got put on, but I’ve now received several free issues of Architectural Digest and Bassmaster.

Cool story of how Paul Sellers was commissioned in 2008 to make credenzas for the White House cabinet room with only a month lead time. As you’d expect from him, the result was beautiful.

Really good TED talk on humanity’s relationship with fire and how (as an animist might say) we have fallen out of right relationship with it. Pyne also has written a related book that looks interesting.

Audit is officially over as of today. I’m started to feel normal after a weeklong cold. I’m off work next week. Things are looking up!

Will there still be old men sitting in restaurants at 6am drinking coffee and talking about nothing in particular by the time I’m old enough to join them?

Good list of eight ways of connecting from Ted Goia. Some of these I was already doing okay with and some still need a lot of work. The two I’ve been working on the most recently are:

• Connection with history and tradition
• Connection with the community via institutions and organizations

This morning I heard a bit from The Wayfinders by Wade Davis, a book about the Polynesian open ocean navigators. Astonishing. Not only the volume of knowledge required to do such navigation, but the types of information used–observations in minute detail gathered over centuries–is amazing.