Some big collard greens going into the smoothie this morning.
Kenneth S. Cohen, The Way of Qigong:
Alan Watts used to say that angels, like Daoist Immortals, can fly because they take themselves lightly!
Speaking of things to watch, I’ve been enjoying Tia Weston’s YouTube series in which she remodels a house with her dad. You can watch the start to finish video here but I also recommend just watching the whole series.
We started watching the newer All Creatures Great and Small series this evening and it’s delightful. There’s nothing I love more than a low stakes British drama.
“Can Wendell Berry save us from Peter Thiel?” The Earth Loving Faithful against the End Times Fascists.
The two original raised beds are flourishing!
More on rational abstraction
Following up on my post about rational abstraction. That mode of thinking is an acquired skill, taught mainly at universities. It is a technical ability needed for certain types of work; its the equivalent of the knowledge of accounting rules for accountants. Because of the self-involvement of the elites educated in such environments and employed in such jobs, it has been generalized into a skill thought to be a base requirement for functioning humanity.
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen has a new video following up on his earlier video on Trump as trickster. Relatedly, check out the episode of The Emerald on the trickster which I linked here.
Couple of pictures from the garden this evening.
The free world realized in the twentieth century that gulags couldn’t break the human spirit. So it invented traffic.