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Later is Earlier is the Same as it Ever Was? Sitting on the couch at 6:02 and noting that oddly enough, with the Sun coming up earlier and earlier, I’m getting up later and later, which confused me for a few until I realized that hey, it’s also going down later and later, especially with [...]

Sharing the Morning Pages I’ve been starting my day with 3 handwritten pages off and on for the past 10 years, full-on steady for the past 9 or 10 months. I wake up, walk to the couch, sit down and let the words pour out. It’s a process I initially lifted from Julia Cameron, author [...]

Prevention Doesn’t Healthy Make! The new Time Magazine is out. It’s the Health Issue and it purports to tell you How to Stay Out of the Hospital. According to Time, It’s all about Prevention. I think they got it bassackwards. There is no relationship between Prevention and Health, and while attempting to keep yourself out [...]

Knives are a really good Invention! So going for real, fresh, unprocessed food definitely calls for more use of knives and less use of scissors, can openers, etc. And cutting out the excess of bs that can come flooding in as soon as you open the lid of your laptop calls for another type of [...]

Let’s go Fly a Kite! It has been a cold and rainy spring so far up here in boston, and this past weekend May have been the defacto beginning of summer, as we hit a trifecta of sorts here at the roslindale ranch. First off, I began harvesting the mesclun mix from the garden. That [...]

Thorns and Roses Well then. Another week has come and gone and here I sit with the task if weighing it out, sorting through, deciding what to put in the stew pot. Friday Afternoon Update number what? Wow. Time keeps on ticking, ticking, ticking, into the future, as Steve Miller pointed out some 33 years [...]

Cry Baby Cry Woke up this morning with tears streaming down my face and I have absolutely no idea why. I had been dreaming–an interesting little gathering of people broken up into two groups, one of which was very serious and one of which moved from hilarious to trivial often enough that I would find [...]

Marking Time The last month was pretty serious indeed, and I’m not unhappy to see it leave. I’m talking lunar months here, as the calendar we generally use seems useful to me only because it’s the one most of us are using.  The calendar on my wall, the one I use when I want to [...]

  two things at the same time okay then. yeah. here we go. two things at the same time. interesting to notice that when i built up my dream calendar there were not a lot of similarities with my current calendar. very different. and the biggest thing is that it has a lot of white [...]