DIY and its virtues
I just read a good essay in the New York Times – “A Nation that’s losing its Toolbox” by Louis Uchitelle (July 21, 2012). He laments the loss, not only of factories and good manufacturing jobs, but...
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ideas from the past – the kang
I am reading the F. H. King classic “Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan” written in 1911 and there are so many nuggets of useful information, including the “kang”....
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gumption and the intermittent failure
If the South’s summer heat and humidity bear any consolation, it is that I have to seek shelter in the house for much of the day and thus am able to extend my reading. I enjoyed the first third of Zen...
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what’s growing and recent reads
Recent good rains have juiced my crops. We thought by now the tomatoes would be done, and some are, but others keep producing. Most everyone complimented the taste of the small tomatoes. We feel the...
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