Read not to contradict nor to believe, but to weigh and consider. –Francis Bacon Essays: I. Of Studies (1597) In addition to being the Day After the Super Bowl and Groundhog Day and Candlemas, today is the First Monday of the Month– and you know what that means, don’t you? It means it was just another
So. I am sitting a few seats down from a woman who cannot refrain from placing call after call after call on her not-iPhone6. If it were not so annoying it would be entertaining. I have learned that she’s thinking of selling her house and the address of said house. I have learned where she
here in Mississippi. I will schedule this to post just after midnight on the morning of the 27th– HA! how funny is that? I decide to take a month off and I start the month on the next to the last day of the only month of the year that doesn’t have 30 or 31
My photographs– I didn’t have my camera on me, I had to rely on my iThingy’s “camera”– do not do this work justice. It’s fascinating. It’s a bunch of loops. Zillions of them. There is no texture. As it appears there is. It’s just a bunch of loops. My first Country Mouse thought was
Once– it is a thought which troubles us– once it was a simple enough matter to be a human being, but now it is deeply difficult; because life was once simple, but it is now complex, confused, multifarious. Haste, anxiety, preoccupation, the need to specialize and make machines of ourselves, have transformed the once simple
I confess that I almost never think about Plato. Aristotle, sure. But Plato? Plato’s rough draft was titled, “The Allegory of the Shadow-Box.” –Mr. Big Food I wonder what Plato’s allegory would look like? –Daughter C “The City Mouse and the Country Mouse” is an allegory for my life for more than a few years
This should really surprise regular readers. We are having company!One of the things I like to do when company’s coming is to slightly modify the crappy old book selection in the guest room’s colorful library. (Many books were chosen because of the color of the cover or spine– who can resist a book with orange
They’re always good for a laugh, aren’t they? Quoting at length from The Washington Post because it’s just too rich. Is a rabid fox ‘a really good sign’ for the city?By Annys Shin and Theresa Vargas,February 14, 2013 A rabid fox bit a young mother on the leg this week as she crossed a road in
We– Mr. Big Food, Daughter C., Miss M. and I– invited some friends and colleagues out to Farther Along Farm for Sunday Brunch to mark the occasion of another successful event at State. Kudos to The Bart Man who orchestrated the event‘s Main Events. Mr. Big Food thought it would be fun to treat our
Commuters’ wasted time in traffic costs $121BBy CHRIS TOMLINSON | Associated Press – 5 hrs ago AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An annual study of national driving patterns shows that Americans spent 5.5 billion additional hours sitting in traffic in 2011. The Texas A&M Transportation Institute released a report Tuesday that found Americans are adapting to
My task was to inspect the perimeter fence. I’m happy to report that it is intact. This fenced-in over-grown pasture is adjacent to the Pond Pasture, as you’ll see. It’s a quite large area that we’ve purposefully let go. It’s quite pretty, too. This tree line separates this pasture from the Hidden pasture. There’s a
The National Park Service is nearing its centennial! Look forward between now and 2016 to a massive advertising campaign targeting young Americans– seems the kids from the cities just aren’t going to our National Parks in droves as they once did. If that trend continues, it would spell disaster for Retailers of Gear. Remember the
We have arrived in The Big Sovereign State of Texas. I was on the patio enjoying coffee and the sounds of a gentle rain when I heard something I’d not heard in a coon’s age: sirens. This, and a lively discussion with suek in the comments on a previous post, reminded me of a little
Today we traveled to That School Up North to attend a public lecture on implicit racism. As always, we got a kick out of being in Oxford– that’s Oxford, Mississippi– which I’ve poked good natured fun at several times: Oxford the food desert; Oxford of Oxford Town, Oxford Town; and Oxford that turns a Jersey
Retold by Alan Benjamin; Illustrated by Jeffrey Severn; Published by Western Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin Those of a certain age may remember this little story of two friends who live in very different worlds. “A city mouse was once invited to visit a friend who lived in the country.” The city mouse was curious about