One question.
Two choices.
No, three choices.
What are you?
Colonialist and colonized.
Both, and something all my own.
Archives for June 2019
Create an Ultimate Alfresco Dining Area in Your Backyard
A passion for grilling is the main reason many suburbanites and city-dwellers choose to eat outside. With grills and outdoor kitchens already a part of many backyard patios, decks, and balconies, it’s only logical that a dedicated outdoor dining area should be the next step.
Aging Exotic Matter in a Custom Wine Cellar
If you posed that question to a restaurant sommelier, or anyone passionate about collecting and maturing wines, they would say NO! They might even ask, Why would you want to try to keep anything but wine in your wine cellar? And imply that to do so would be to risk your entire collection. And they would have some good arguments.
Three Bronx Cheers for Oregon’s Bottle Bill
Energy costs of trucking bulky items to Portland, sorting them in a mechanized facility, and shipping them to China where they might be turned into consumer items and resold to us, perhaps proudly bearing a “green” label, greatly exceed those of the local reuse and recycling of sixty years ago.
The Best of Times
Leaving, I felt the awesome power of joy and love that defined his life – with none of the transitory, smoky mirrors of “stardom.” Suddenly, the gift he was giving us hit home: all things must pass; but, we’re still here. If there’s any good we can do, let it be now. Keep the music going!
Deepening Practice in Meditation
And even as it feels like attempting to build a bridge between the ‘no! you can’t change!’ subconscious design, and the ‘yes! you can!’ conscious one, over wounds that roil and boil like hot lava underneath the surface of our conditioning, we are called to breathe through the pain and discomfort …
To Tuck or Not to Tuck – That is the Question
Believe it or not, the answer to whether to tuck your sheet in or not will probably depend on where you were raised. Many people in the United States and Canada prefer to have their flat sheet tucked in at the foot of the bed. Across the Atlantic Ocean, most European people prefer to let their sheets, and their feet, be free.