buy cialis with priligy online I’ve been terribly busy lately – it’s tapping season, the busiest time of year on a maple farm – and I haven’t had time to write down the long thoughts I’ve been having, but one of the themes in my mind has been an examination of the idea of self-sufficiency or self-reliance. I’ve long thought […]
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Self-Sufficiency.
16-Jan-14In fermento sodalitas.
16-Nov-10Goražde You know you’re living in the Catskills when in your no-plumbing residence you have not one, but two home-fermented drinks given to you by neighbors. On the left, a beer flavored with locally scavenged mugwort, and on the right, a hard cider from locally scavenged apples – the American colonial drink par excellence. Emerson calls […]
Dreams and Beasts.
01-Feb-10“Dreams and Beasts are two keys by which we are to find out the secrets of our own nature. All mystics use them. They are like comparative anatomy. They test objects; or we may say, that must be a good theory of the universe, that theory will bring a commanding claim to confidence, which explains […]
‘The Nympholepsy of a Fond Despair.’
21-Dec-09“I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen’s novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem […]
The Eve of St. John.
23-Jun-09Bonfire tonight, in honor of the Prodromos, bright enough to be seen from the next mountain, I imagine. I will add one of my favorite poems, though it is not for all: Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as […]