05.29.08

Simple Beauty

Posted in Affirmation, Environment, Musings at 9:29 am by trueepicure

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Some days you just have to enjoy the simple beauty the world has to offer. Forget about all of the worry, and just enjoy what is.

05.08.08

Digital Ways

Posted in Musings at 1:49 pm by trueepicure

I attended a technology and education conference yesterday. It was an interesting mix of technology wonks, educators, administrators, and political mucky mucks. It was a really great conference in a lot of ways - including helping us to rethink how we provide education in this country. Technology is a critical part of how we live and work, and for that matter, how we play, and yet I couldn’t help thinking that we are doing a huge disservice to our nation’s youth in not teaching them basic things like where food comes from or how to make a budget.

I suppose that the technology is just another way to learn basic things, and that it is critical for kids to learn how to survive in a digital world, but I worry that we are so focused on computers and cellphones, that we will lose our understanding of the physical world and all of the wonderful things in it.

I kept finding myself thinking about James Howard Kuntsler’s book World Made by Hand during the conference. In World Made by Hand, the world economy has collapsed and the major economic centers of the United States have been destroyed. The people who have survived the Spanish Flu pandemic are slowing trying to rebuild their lives as farmers, salvagers, and traders. Electricity is scarce, and access to fossil fuels has all but disappeared. I keep thinking to myself that in our digital ways might be our undoing in the end.

05.06.08

Twitter Hacks

Posted in Food at 7:48 am by trueepicure

Because Twitter isn’t enough useless fun: http://foodfeed.us/

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