There’s a trailside cafe & grocery 45 minutes by foot from my building. It’s called the Swamp Rabbit, riding the coattails of its raison d’etre, and it wears its sustainable, low carbon footprint, organic farming, locally produced, ethical treatment of animals food sourcing policies right out on its non-sweatshop-assembled sleeve. One feels good about spending […]
Walking the trail today, I found myself directly behind, then directly ahead of, then behind, then ahead of (and so on) a woman walking her dog. The dog kept wanting to mark bushes and she kept acquiescing, which made her pace very erratic. Hence the dance. Also, she was talking to someone on her phone […]
In Last and First Men (1930), science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon described a process of evolutionary trial and error played out over billions of years, humanity evolving and devolving, advancing and retreating, drifting planet to planet, galaxy to galaxy like a fragile cloud, the final iteration no more obviously related to 21st century man than 21st century […]
