Last of the Saddle Tramps

July 29, 2013

...change your course, shake up your life–or even have a grand adventure. It’s also refreshing to read a book where the hero is an older woman. Such stories are scarce as hens’ teeth. I won’t say more. Highly recommended. I was lucky enough to find this book at the library. It’s also sold through the publishing arm of the Long Rider’s Guild (I think?), Horse Travel Books, where they keep all sorts of obscure, horsey memoirs in print. Bless them. It’...

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2014: The Year in Review

Mr. Homegrown

December 29, 2014

Thoughtstylings

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.... Pascal and Mia are working on a book that I predict will be the foraging book. September Stoicism Today In a very unlikely turn of events, an essay we wrote was included in a book on stoicism. I tried not to let it puff my ego up too much. October I Made Shoes In October we hosted an intense three day turnshoe making workshop with Randy Fritz. This was one of the more commented upon things we did this year. I ran into Randy over the holidays and...

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News From Nowhere

Mr. Homegrown

May 25, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...e.” Speaking of beauty, my dear neighbors, you should definitely read this book in the facsimile edition that reproduces Morris’ impossibly beautiful printing. Reading it this way has the hopeful quality of holding an object from the future Morris imagines. Morris’ exquisite typography physically locates the reader in the place of the time traveling narrator. That said, if you don’t feel like springing for the book, you can read a copy online. And...

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The Question Concerning Technology: Heidegger on Tech

Mr. Homegrown

August 7, 2024

Goats, Thoughtstylings

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...es in the ineffable, that which can only be accessed, if dimly, through poetry, through art, through the irrational. If you’d like to read Heidegger’s essay I’d suggest heading to your library where it can be found in a book Readings in the Philosophy of Technology, edited by David M. Kaplan. That book also contains an essay by Hubert Dreyfus “Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology” that gives some more context. You can also find Heide...

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Leisure The Basis of Culture

Mr. Homegrown

March 6, 2015

Thoughtstylings

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...hat holds the world together: vas die Welt Im innersten zusammenhält only for a moment perhaps, and the lightning vision of his intuition has to be recaptured and rediscovered in hard work. Fr. Mark Kowalewski, who tipped me off to Pieper’s book, describes this state of leisure as “profoundly counter-cultural.” And yet I hear Gmail calling me. Time to update my Facebook profile and get out some tweets. How do you deal with life’s distractions? How...

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