For Zapotec artist and weaver Porfirio Gutiérrez, colour is a way to connect with his ancestors’ way of life, which has sustained civilisations by living in symbiosis with nature. (BBC)
The man preserving endangered colours
Author: Dr. Dean
Walking on sunshine
The Dark Side of Hustle Culture | Henry David Thoreau Walden
This put a smile on my face ; ) Some good first lessons drawn from Walden with a contemporary focus.
Everything Is Fine, Totally Taco Tuesday Good
The Concord Circle and the Birth of American Philosophy
Henry David Thoreau on his 200th birthday has invited us back to his woodsy, watery old town of Concord, Massachusetts where crystalline American prose was born and grew up. (PRX)
Nietzsche and Emerson
You cannot live on vegetable food solely
One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. Thoreau, Walden
Democratize Enlightment
Let’s Do This Thing!
Nanci Griffith, “From a Distance” on Letterman, August 30, 1988
‘River Dave’ doesn’t think he can go back to being a hermit
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An off-the-grid New Hampshire man’s days living as a hermit appear to be over. “River Dave,” whose cabin in the woods burned down after nearly three decades on property that he was ordered to leave, says he doesn’t think he can return to his lifestyle.
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