Your Last Most Beautiful Nature Moment
Yah everyone, time for another round of LMB. Today, the nature edition. Almost all of my moments of beauty are moments in nature. Someone told me recently about asking a group of people about their...
View ArticleFeasting green, cheap, and healthy - some recipes
I've been living frugally for almost a decade now, grew up in a family that was frugal even when we lived in what I now understand to be upper middle class. That was passed down from my grandparents on...
View ArticleSo here's my theory - Obama is a pragmatist
He works with the existing operative reality, negotiates with the people who've brought power to the table, and doesn't mind losing battles. He's open to working with unconventional allies, willing to...
View ArticleHow ready are you for the Apocalypse?
Over the years, I have spent an unreasonable amount of time thinking about the coming Apocalypse - what form it would take, what my response would be, what my odds would be. I blame Christianity -...
View ArticleApocalypse Literature
Well my first foray into apocalypse-themed diaries was met with interest, confusion, and some mockery. Which tells be the topic has potential but needs some refining. So we're going to take this to the...
View ArticleUtopia is Now-Here
I spend a lot of time reading the news. A lot. More than has ever proven useful. Working from home, it's easy to get endlessly distracted, and pointlessly so, since none of my work is ever...
View ArticleSurviving the Apocalypse - Hurricane Irene Edition.
While the East Coast still reels from the devastation of Earthquake Unnamed (btw, why is that? Why do hurricanes get names, and earthquakes don't? On the chance that this is a problem waiting for a...
View ArticleMoving through the wild
I was mostly excited about Hurricane Irene because I was looking forward to kayaking the Potomac in flood. I headed out Sunday without checking the flood gauges because I just wanted to experience the...
View ArticleOn conflict
I mostly lurk at DK now, and t/r diaries that I like. I used to get more stirred up and engaged about the various battles, and likely will again. I do appreciate being able to get close to the pulse of...
View ArticleFlooded River, Heart Sutra
I love kayaking in floods. We got a lot of rain this week, and the last few days I'd been getting really restless, because my work commitments didn't allow me to get out on the Potomac river. I finally...
View ArticleSo what can we do to address racial issues at DK?
I feel that our progress towards the goal will be in exact proportion to the purity of our means...They say ‘means are after all means’. I would say ‘means are after all everything’. As the means so...
View ArticleSo apparently we're done talking about the Boycott.
But actually, we're not - prepare for another wave of diaries this Sunday-Monday. We're also not done because there's not yet been a resolution. I've been involved with an all-volunteer organization...
View ArticleMoments of Beauty
Right now, all the beauty's tangled up with Occupy Wall Street and the local implementations, which I've just been lurking on. Thanks to DK I got to follow this from the beginning, and am very inspired...
View ArticleI don't think that OWS guy got his leg run over.
I know people are very upset about this, and I know that I'm inviting a lot of controversy with this diary, and I'm not particularly interested in having a long back and forth with everyone who feels...
View ArticleViscerophobia, a hitherto unnamed affliction.
I have, for about the last 2 decades, been affected by an unnamed condition. There are many others out there who are similarly afflicted - I've talked with them. It's taken me a long time to come up...
View ArticleWhat's important about Occupy? Presence and Voice
There are plenty of people out there writing and talking about what the Occupy Movement is, what it should be, why it sucks, why it's awesome, what they should be doing, what they're doing right and...
View ArticleWhat's up with all the R 2012 primary presidential debates?
There have been so many that they're all blurring together. And I periodically am surprised to hear there was another one. Eg the CNN-Heritage Foundation Debate in DC's Constitution Hall, where the...
View ArticleRecipe - Family Xmas Tomato Salad
Maybe it's naive, but everytime I go home, I imagine that maybe by now we're all grown enough to get along. This year, that little fantasy got shredded pretty quickly. Maybe that's good. Whatever....
View ArticleThe last most beautiful, and resolutions.
Well, it's been awhile, but these diaries come up on me like butterflies. And when I compare discussions of beauty, with the awesomely relevant hardhitting political and social diaries that DK...
View ArticleOn Leadership - Know Your Audience
This is a first attempt on a community discussion about Leadership, which I personally am finding to be an increasingly relevant topic. I'd like to open this topic up in the DK community, and maybe...
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