More apocalypse, less angst
i am finding myself less than charming today and i just had a meeting with a manager and a human resources advisor about a case i am working on as a shop steward, and am wishing i could have been a little bit more… Continue Reading “less than charming”
as long as our cultural memes reinforce the selfishness and moral bankruptcy of the rich and our right to consume as we please in our desire to be like them – and our “leaders” don’t challenge that – we continue in our purgatory of destruction, never tasting good food, drinking potable water or breathing clean air – never connecting with other peoples, animals or the environment which we have mostly paved over.
revelation on the morning bus ride: rather than feeling as though i’m *in* water – i need to *be* water drowning, submerged, in over my head – this is how i often feel as a union steward listening to the stories of aggrieved members.… Continue Reading “lessons from water”
after the past month of non-stop running from place to place – i finally took a break to be sick for a couple of days. in all the hectic motion, i seem to have caught some sort of fluish thing that has kept me… Continue Reading “sick day”
on the weekend, nathan and i met up in princeton and stayed at a place called the “princeton castle” (tag-line: “escape to history in log luxury”). you can see from the photograph above the ruins which do look decidedly medieval-castle-like but interestingly, this is… Continue Reading “castles and coal towns”