Archive for 2009

More shoes I didn’t buy

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted about shoes, and now two shoe posts in just one week?  I guess cool-weather shoes are more to my taste than summery sandals. I really like these boots.  Unfortunately, they’re over $200 and I really can’t justify buying them.

Honor & Glory

Remorse Siegfried Sassoon via TEotAW Lost in the swamp and welter of the pit, He flounders off the duck-boards; only he knows Each flash and spouting crash,–each instant lit When gloom reveals the streaming rain. He goes Heavily, blindly on. And, while he blunders, ‘Could anything be worse than this?’–he wonders, Remembering how he saw […]

Restraint

This Saturday, these shoes were 62% off, and I almost bought them.  As adorable as they are though, I know I’d probably only wear them once or twice a year.  I’ll just look at them for a few days and sigh a bit.

Why we create

E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge: Early humans invented [the arts] in an attempt to express and control through magic the abundance of the environment, the power of solidarity, and other forces in their lives that mattered most to survival and reproduction.  The arts were the means by which these forces could be […]

What I’ve Noticed

Very cool new medical device invented at a fraction of the usual cost. What is music and can non-human animals enjoy it? The people who make the least get cheated the most by their employers. Verizon is sponsoring the Friends of America Rally, a big coal event to kill climate change legislation.  Tell them that’s […]