Thursday, October 22, 2009

living each day....

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The snow melted very rapidly – and today is a typical blustery but bright autumn day. The wolves are already here – devouring this week a...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

a bible for our times

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The outage lasted all day and allowed me therefore to read the entire Kohr book (" The Breakdown of Nations ") - without the di...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

books which made an impact

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The painting is so appropriate at the moment - when I am trying to identify the books which have made an impact on me. The storm which was r...
Monday, October 19, 2009

is small beautiful?

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Painting is Rusi Ganchev's(1895-1965) "A Park " Interesting that I bought recently a reissued version of Leopold Kohr’...

measuring one's eco footprint

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An Italian woman offering “eco-holidays” in Sicily – in a neglected village on the edge of a town (Cefalu) which has been able to exploit ma...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

tower of babel

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Pieter Bruegel the elder (1563) I ended my last post with an attack on universities. This is not the first time I have found myself atta...

recovering what has been lost

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I want to pursue some thoughts I found myself expressing today when trying today to explain the purpose of the blog. There seem four separat...

nomad in central europe and central asia

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It’s not easy to give up a powerful position in such a large organisation which was doing such interesting work – let alone to leave one’s c...