Recommended: “Radical Neighboring”
Sand River Community Farm is an experiment in gift economy and community building. Ever since farmer Adam Wilson was offered $500K from a community member to take this piece of land off the market, the food from this place has been offered as a gift to the neighbours and strangers who find their way here. Welcome to the farm where nothing is for sale.
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray, read by Iain McGilchrist
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.