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From a meditation on the 4 Principles of RCAP*
Story Hunter Stories lie in mirrors. Stories slip in film strips and along slide rulers. Stories twist and recombine like the strands of helix. Each story is open and blind. Each story offers a façade onto the unknown. With instruments … Continue reading
The Spent and the Extended
A good place to begin thinking about social infrastructure and the impact of epidemics is to trace with Sontag the economics of psychic investments and divestments… Susan Sontag Illness as Metaphor Early capitalism assumes the necessity of regulated spending, saving, … Continue reading
The Sensual and the Intellectual
Why food matters Ruth Reichl’s 2005 Tanner Lectures https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/r/Reichl_2007.pdf When you eat with all your senses you open yourself to the glorious pleasures of taste and touch and smell as they go rushing through your body. That is no small … Continue reading
Incitation to Larcency
Massimo Bottura from the concluding paragraph to the introduction to Bread is Gold Food waste is one of the biggest problems of our century and our generation’s cross to bear. Numbers are numbers. Almost one billion people are undernourished. One-third … Continue reading
I ♥ The Ubiquitous Promiscuous Heart
This line speaks to a modus vivendi… To ♥ New York is to love it in an epicurean way, with one’s whole body, to accept its flaws, to revel in its sensory overload, to become accustomed to the unexpected. which … Continue reading
Comprehending the Comprehensive: Complete Street Guidelines
Look at how the principles appear: note that social equity in this framing has both the semantic pull towards “equality” and that of real wealth (“equity”) because of how it is positioned between vitality and maintenance under the general rubric … Continue reading
The Re-enchantment of Frugality
Massimo Bottura Food for Change European Investment Bank https://www.eib.org/en/publications/eib-big-ideas-food-for-change As the frenetic lives we are living might not give us that much time to think about food in a more conscious way, we have to slow down a little to … Continue reading
Externalities, More Than
In the series The FUTURE of WORK “Dollars in the Margins” [intro blurb – a quotation from the article] The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn’t Just Improve Lives. It Saves Them. A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep … Continue reading
Gross Domestic Product: Its Limitations
First the examples of what’s wrong: If you were the GDP, your ideal citizen would be a compulsive gambler with cancer who’s going through a drawn-out divorce that he copes with by popping fistfuls of Prozac and going berserk on … Continue reading
Seared & Cauterized
Jack Kornfield A Path With Heart Sometimes when the demons are most difficult, we can use a variety of temporary practices that function to dispel them and act as antidotes. For desire, one traditional antidote is to reflect on the … Continue reading