Author: ps pirro

• Creative Types

  Validation: I am a Maker. What about you? (via Swiss Miss)

• Happy Enough

  The co-op had some great oranges this week. Sweet and juicy and altogether perfect. Sometimes one is all I need to feel really happy. Sometimes,…

• 4 a.m.

  My friend Mychele is a long-time a practioner of kundalini yoga. It was she who introduced me to the phrase “ambrosial hour,” which I immediately…

• The Dangerz

  I have several alternative lives that exist only in my head. (“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should…

• Slack

  Oliver Burkeman says cut yourself some.

• A Real Person Doing Real Things

  Suzanne Slomin is a farmer and baker who runs a small bread bakery in Vermont and has some things to say about work and running a small…

• Douglas Rushkoff

  In America, people are willing to sacrifice their well-being, social cohesion, stability and sustainability for the false notion of individual freedom.  But the truth is,…

• Unspectacular

  “To know the pleasures of an unspectacular landscape, such as that of Indiana, requires an uncommon degree of attentiveness and insight.” ~Scott Russell Sanders, “Landscape…

• An Old School Influencer

  A long, long time ago, when the current century had yet to be born and we were all wearing plaid flannel shirts tied around our…

• Locomotive Breath

  There’s no solace in knowing it has always been so — the angry mob, the fist and the fury — knowing doesn’t help at all.…