So I figured the square option would be better as it utilizes cupboard space more effliciently. However, I came upon a drawback: with the square food container, the lid may fall in when placed at the diagonal. This happened and it smashed the base. Sic transit gloria mundi. Of course, if the base had been a little stronger… …
Finishing up my time here in the US. I think I will miss the quietude of being at home alone, and will not enjoy the bustle of being in a full household again. Coronavirus cases are sky-rocketing in Israel again, so I won’t want to go out even after the period of home-isolation. I think …
“Foreign workers are particularly vulnerable, with a weaker support network and language barriers that prevent them from seeking government help…” Seems like an enduring universal truth (https://gu.com/p/dnkfp/stw)
The Guardian has a tag for Mindfulness. It’s https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/mindfulness. There are already 161 results. I just read an article, No tricks. No mantras. I just want to learn how to do nothing: my quest to stay still. Doing nothing, without resort to spiritual distractions is something that I’ve become interested in. But this article isn’t …
There’s always a disagreement between those who think it’s better to fight the system from the inside and those who say it’s better to oppose it totally. Some are total conscientious objectors and others, in the Israeli context for example, say that it’s better for humane soldiers to control the checkpoints than racist bastards with …
I’m thinking that our lives are like a rich field of individual moments and responses; interactions with persons, things, situations. Whatever way we find to allow these moments to reverberate in our consciousness permits the weaving of them into an intricate tapestry, that gives joy through its beauty and intelligence. Processing our experiences through private …
Richard Stallman’s Political Notes is a superbly curated timeline of horrors that lie just under the surface. It should be read every morning as an inoculation against complacency. There are a few people who perform a similar service around specific issues. In Israel/Palestine there’s Amos Gvirtz, who for years has been publishing and sending to …
It’s charming to read, in The One Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka’s frustration with Japanese officialdom. He’s the epitome of the crazy genius nobody understands, the idealist who makes everyone else feel uncomfortable. I knew a man like that, Toma Schuck, who counseled me in my successful attempt to avoid military service as a conscientious objector. …
The plan for the remaining years is to grow freer, lighter and less encumbered till eventually there is nothing left to weigh down the soul and it takes off into space, because it has grown lighter than the atmosphere. Isn’t this a worthier aspiration than being gradually pulled down into the earth by the deadweight …
There’s a lot to be said in favor of simply being a guest in a guest house. Here I am in Arka, in Auroville, staying here for the 5th or 6th time I reckon. They know me. I know them. They give me the same room each time. It keeps improving from year to year. …