Skip to content

Monthly Archives: November 2011

Pictures.

06-Nov-11

http://schottremovals.co.uk/jeannie-y-01052018/online-estimate October 2011.

On Thoreau and Simplicity.

06-Nov-11

Mangaratiba Not great, but ad rem. http://www.onearth.org/blog/why-thoreau-wouldn%E2%80%99t-buy-a-prius

Love and Being Loved.

06-Nov-11

The rest of this poem is nothing special to me, but I was very affected by these lines of Philip Larkin: In everyone there sleeps A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make By loving others, but across most it sweeps As all they might have […]

Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire.

06-Nov-11

I spent a few evenings in the past week reading Desert Solitaire, which I did with pleasure.  The book is hardly perfect but then again, neither are we.  A popular book such as this must be flawed.  It does not have the polish of a book like Walden and will not last as long, but […]

Baseball Stadium Dimensions.

06-Nov-11

Contractors are currently working at Citi Field bringing the fences in to make the park’s dimensions more comparable to other MLB stadiums.  I tend to favor larger stadiums, because to me it is strange and arbitary that the position of a fence can not just make a double into a home run, but actually make […]

“More unequal than Zimbabwe.”

01-Nov-11

A piece on Bridgeport, Fairfield, and Darien, in Connecticut, home to more than a million people, where the income inequality index would make it the twelfth most unequal country in the world – worse than Zimbabwe, worse than Russia, worse than Mexico, worse than Rwanda or Madagascar. As a New Yorker you grow up with […]

Civilization is your disease, nature is your cure.

01-Nov-11

Obvious, but still true.  Up here I believe my spectrum of emotions is pre-modern, i.e. there is sadness, and there is grief, and there is loneliness, and there is regret, and there is pain, but not quite anything that could be called depression – there’s no such thing in the woods.  You are penalized too […]