Things are temporary, relationships last forever. Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the life of another.
The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.
There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood. . . in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.
Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.
Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture. ' What sustainability depends on isn't agri- so much as culture.
All of human history is about the going from sudden fat years to the sudden lean years. We've always had good times and bad, and we've had ways of managing the bad times. We have ways of insulating ourselves, making ourselves less sensitive for the bad times by having things like grain stores, for example. Pretty much every civilization that's lasted for any reasonable length of time has some food management principles behind it. But what's been happening over the past thirty years is it's failed - the insurance policy.
Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connected to everyone I disappear. . . in being excellent you lose yourself. And when you're connected to everyone, that's the best thing that can happen.
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
Michael Jackson's charity efforts? Mmm. I'm sure they have nothing to do with his molestation charges.
Well, people from the "me" generation use photography to show off what they are doing, to show the world themselves and their friends. Those sort of diarized accounts have always been there. But the phenomena of making those diaries public is new, isn't it?
These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L. A. : one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.