Category: and so it goes

• Mermaid Avenue

  Driving home after a long day, listening to Billy Bragg (and those enchanting backing vocals from Natalie Merchant.) Mermaid Avenue is twenty years old this year.…

• Try This, Try That

  Rather than thinking endlessly about what might work and trying this and trying that, in a kind of trial-and-error method, perhaps we should try looking…

• Transition

  When contemplating change, it’s tempting to try to think things through. Make a list, check it twice. Consider all the factors, all the contingencies and…

• God on Sunday

  “In the beginning Man created God, and in the image of Man created He him.” Ian Anderson, “Aqualung” They lost me at the personification. I…

• Food Rules

  In a recent post that touches on food and religious evangelism and the folly of demanding adherence to the one true way, John Michael Greer writes:…

• Fair Trade

  One of my customers paid for her lunch today with a bunch of dried mint from her garden, a jar of homemade bread & butter…

• False Metrics

  The corporate and political elite who gathered in Davos last week are not your peers. They know nothing of you, care not a whit for…

• An Unaffordable Luxury

  “Extreme capitalism has blown apart American society so totally that people cannot even care for one another as much as they do in places like…

• Do Nothing

  I take Fridays off. For most of the day, I do pretty much nothing at all. A few months back I bookmarked this beautiful, long,…

• What Ricky Says

  No matter what choice you make, what path you choose, what action you take, there will be people who say you’re going the wrong way.…