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This And That, Approaching Thanksgiving

November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, work

I’ve added a delicious new book by Amy Minato to Books I Love, one that would be great to read over the Thanksgiving weekend . . . .  at work, the rideshare proposal I’ve been working on for months with many others is finally reaching closure, thank the Goddess . . . . . Green [...]

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Looking Forward To . . .

June 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · sustainability

A few varied notes: I’m leaving tomorrow afternoon for Bend, Oregon for a conference on public participation and to be filmed for a cable TV segment on transportation options . . . . . Hanmi and I are working on the Resources For Good Living Page and plan to post it on Summer Solstice (June [...]

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Books That Excite Me Or Make Me Laugh

March 7th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment

My experience is that great books are like life-blood to the Diamond-Cut Life (a life rich in joy and low in consumption). I have often been dollar-poor, and though I’m not any longer, good books give me — I think us — an exciting inner life whatever our external status in the world. Reading an [...]

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Books I Love

March 7th, 2009 · 12 Comments · sustainability

Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
I bought this book in hardcover the day it came out (in spring 2010) — something I’ve never done before — because I experience Ms. Lamott’s rich, deeply human writing as a kind of nutrition. This novel, which follows through on the lives of characters developed earlier in Rosie and Crooked [...]

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Celebrating the Fourth, Diamond-Cut Style

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, health & well being, simplicity

Happy Fourth of July! It’s our nation’s birthday. I’ve posted Ideas for celebrating below, based on this basic life-principle we all tend to forget:
A nation starts its life in the beginning as land, as earth — before people arrived to populate it. And that land, the soil, water and things that grow on it, are [...]

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